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Pratikraman
will be on the right track. You should not spoil your inner intent
(bhaav) and if it does get spoiled, then there is nothing wrong
if you immediately correct it.
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If a group of women is passing by and one of the people
you are with makes a comment, ‘Look at that prostitute! What
is she doing here?’ and based on his comment, you also start to
believe her to be a prostitute, then you will incur a tremendous
liability. She is saying, ‘Circumstances have forced me to be this
way; in all that, why are you committing a fault? I am already
suffering my karma effect, but why are you creating a fault all
over again (cause karma)?’ Why should you take on a liability
on her account? She has not become a prostitute of her own
will. No living being likes to be or become bad. It is circumstances
that initially drive a person to do things, but later it becomes a
habit. Nevertheless, initially, it was circumstances that drove her
to do so.
It Cannot Be Done through the Intellect
(Buddhi)
Questioner: Mistakes like that occur everywhere during
one’s entire life, do they not?
Dadashri: No, a mistake will occur, but if you know that
as a mistake, and become a true judge (not partial to file number
one), then You will be able to see that you made a mistake. So
then you have to remove the stain of that mistake by doing
pratikraman.
Questioner: But we have to do that through the intellect
(buddhi), don’t we?
Dadashri: No, not through the intellect (buddhi). It is
done with the light of knowledge (Gnan prakash) that ‘we’ give
you. The buddhi will not let you see your mistake, will it? The
intellect (buddhi) is the lawyer, so it will not allow you to see
the mistake at all.