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[9] Pratikraman in Varying Situations
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daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law commits suicide as a
result. Will the daughter-in-law attain peace if the mother-in-law
does pratikraman afterwards?
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Dadashri: We have to continue doing pratikraman; we
are not liable for anything else.
Questioner: What if the person is living?
Dadashri: After doing pratikramans, you have to tell
him, ‘I have no sense. Please forgive me.’ You should say that
and he will be pleased. The other person becomes happy when
you show him that you have less sense. If you say this even after
breaking his arm, he will not worry about his broken arm. He
will be happy. This is because the breaking of his arm had
already been decided (it was in his karma), but you became the
nimit. And so it occurred through your nimit (you as the nimit).
So that karma became settled. The account became settled
through a credit and a debit.
The Knower of the Kashays and Lack of Kashays
Questioner: Bad feelings, intents, arise but I immediately
recognize that I made a mistake.
Dadashri: That is why I tell you that all wrong and bad
bhaav is discharge. Do you understand that? And it does not
charge or bind karma. For such intentions, one immediately
knows, ‘It should not be this way…it should not be so.’
Otherwise, to become involved with the wrong intentions
(asaiyam) is called ‘giving in to kashays.’ But are you not able
to remain separate from the bad intents (bad bhaav)?
Questioner: Yes, yes.
Dadashri: Now, bad bhaav is effective (it is an effect
and its causes were previously created). Even if you try to stop
them, you will not succeed, but if ‘Chandulal’ were scolding
someone, from within You would know it should not be that