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Pratikraman
Dadashri: Maintain from within that smoking is wrong; it
is harmful. Furthermore, when someone points out your mistake,
never defend or protect the act of smoking in any manner. If you
do, it will only serve to reinforce and protect your addiction.
Admit that you have a weakness and that it is a bad habit. Only
then will a time come when you will be able to break yourself
away from this addiction. If you do not, then this addiction will
stay with you. Are you trying to let go of it?
Questioner: I am trying, but without success.
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Dadashri: No, you should not make any attempts. What
you should do is not protect your addiction. If someone tells
you, ‘Why don’t you stop smoking?’ and you respond by, ‘No,
there is no need to stop smoking,’ then that is the protection of
your addiction. In the presence of criticism, when your addiction
has a chance of dissolving, you defend it by saying, ‘No, there
is nothing wrong with smoking.’ So what happens then? It will
not go away. So always maintain the belief that it is wrong to
smoke, then one day it will go away.
Questioner: What if I simply keep ‘seeing’ the discharge
that is occurring and not do pratikraman for it? Will that then
increase or decrease?
Dadashri: It will not increase. In not doing pratikraman,
you will see those same parmanus again in your next life.
Questioner: But what if we do not increase anything new
and simply keep ‘seeing’ the discharge?
Dadashri: There is no need to do pratikraman at all.
One hundred percent there is no need for it! The reason I have
put forth pratikraman is that otherwise you will not be free of
your opinions. The moment you do pratikraman, you are
opposing that opinion. That is not your opinion anymore;
otherwise, it will remain pending. There is no need for
pratikraman in this science. It is solely for this reason you have