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[8] Freedom from the Chains of Life-After-Life Accounts
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I do pratikraman for it at night or should I meet with that
person and do direct pratikraman?
Dadashri: In such an event, what would someone who
does not have Self-realization (agnani) resort to? He would
fight, curse, shout insults, etc; this is what an agnani will do.(166)
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: He may curse and swear, but that will not stop
the harm. He has brought such an account (karma) with him and
so that is bound to occur. But when he retaliates, he creates a
new account (karma) for the coming life. He perpetuates the
account. That is not what we do here in Akram Vignan; we
simply have to ‘see’ and ‘know’ what is happening. The
underlying foundation of this awareness is, ‘The harm the other
person is doing is the result of my own past karma.’ Just like
when the step-well (vaav) echoes back ‘thief’ if you first say
‘thief’ in it; can you then claim that the water well is harming
you? No, it is the effect of your own action coming back to you.
Because the echo comes back to you right away, you can know
that it is the result of your own doing. Otherwise, one does not
recognize it. Therefore, there is no need to do pratikraman in
this case of the other person harming you at all. You have to do
pratikraman if you are the one causing the harm. We do not
have to do pratikraman if he is causing the harm. You just keep
‘seeing.’
If someone does us good, that is the result of our own
doing and if he causes us harm, that too is the result of our own
doing. Worldly people (those who do not have Gnan) react
differently in both situations. They have attachment towards the
one doing good and abhorrence towards the one doing harm.
Both are the results of attachment and abhorrence (in the previous
life). No one does good or bad; it is simply the echo of your
own doing. There is nothing else. How can anything come from
outside this?