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not understand this, do they? Whenever they do, it will help
them. What can they do when they do not understand? That is
because this is very difficult to understand. One needs a very
sharp intellect (buddhi) to understand this.
Questioner: You are telling a thief that he can steal but
that he should keep the awareness that what he is doing is
wrong. He should repent for his actions, and he should do
pratikraman for it. That really gets a lot accomplished.
Dadashri: It will work wonders.
Questioner: Eventually, he will feel that he does not want
to steal.
Dadashri: All these traditional punishments for teaching
people a lesson do not work. But this one approach of Akram
science is very different; it works.
Every Relative Worldly Religion is Dehadhyasi
That is why ‘we’ say that all the religions of the world are
of the path of dehadhyas (the belief ‘I am this body’). They
increase dehadhyas, whereas ours is without dehadhyas. Every
religion says, ‘You are the doer of penance. You are the doer
of renunciation. You are the one doing the penance. You are not
doing penance.’ Even when they tell you, ‘You are not doing
penance,’ it is the same as attributing ‘doership’ upon you. In
this manner, they accept ‘doership’ and even in making the
statement, ‘I cannot do penance,’ one accepts ‘doership.’ Any
path that accepts or believes in ‘doership’ is the path of
dehadhyas. In Akram, we do not accept ‘doership.’ Nowhere
in any books of Akram Vignan will you find the term, ‘Do this
or do that.’
No one ever opposes or questions this. If they did, they
would find the answer that, ‘There is no one in this world that
has the independent energy or power to even go to the toilet!’
If someone were to question ‘us,’ we would explain to him,