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Pratikraman
The Method for Removing Salt from Milk
Everything will be solved through the grace of ‘Dada.’
You know that the milk is going to go bad and that you will not
be able to make tea with it in the morning, so then you will use
your technique to remove the salt from the milk. Whatever salt
you put in the milk (whatever atikraman that occurred
unintentionally), you should look for ways to remove it. Our
science is such that it will get rid of everything. Then later you
have to apply cream and bandages in order to fix the wound
(the damage). You have to stop the bleeding first. Then if it still
goes in the wrong direction, then would you not know that it has
not settled down?
Questioner: Yes, I would.
Dadashri: Then you have to let go of it. Thereafter, all
you have to do is keep patching it up. Then he will not bleed.
And someday he will invite you to his home. And you should go.
Then if the bleeding occurs again, you will be able to address it
(do pratikraman appropriately) in a timely fashion.
Questioner: This is what occurs. In trying to ‘operate
(improve)’ on the other person, twenty-five other complications
arise.
Dadashri: Yes, that has occurred. So you need to exercise
caution when you are dealing with such situations. That is called
discretion (vivek). Even when you give something real to
someone, you should do so with discretion. You cannot give it
after slapping him. Even if you are ‘feeding’ someone ‘real food,’
you cannot do it after you have ‘slapped’ him, because here, in
this work, everyone has a vote. If this were to take place in a
village, you could get away with it. Those people (simple and
sincere people) do things ‘heartily’ and so whatever you do
would work, whereas here (with city people) you will not get
away with it. Nothing fits in the city.