Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts (Full Version) Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts | Page 294

[13] Liberation from Artadhyan and Raudradhyan 235 is not really at fault. Our kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are the real culprits. Your kashays are your own inner enemies. There are no other enemies on the outside. And those inner enemies are what are killing you; nothing on the outside is hurting you. Repenting Changes the Dhyan If a person has committed severe raudradhyan, he can turn it into artadhyan by doing pratikraman. If two people are at fault of the same kind of raudradhyan, where they both have expressed a desire to kill someone, their inner state for violence is raudradhyan. If one of them goes home and sincerely repents for having such a destructive bhaav, his raudradhyan will become artadhyan, while the other will continue his raudradhyan. Through repentance, raudradhyan can be changed to artadhyan. With repentance, one is diverted from a birth in hell to a birth in the animal kingdom. With further intense repentance, one can turn raudradhyan into dharmadhyan. With initial repentance, raudradhyan turns into artadhyan and with repeated repentance it becomes dharmadhyan. Actions and events may not change, but changes are taking place from within. The minute you turn your back on raudradhyan, by repenting, changes will occur. But if you take pleasure in it and insist, ‘No, that man needs to be punished. I am correct in thinking that way,’ then that will take you all the way to the lowest form of life (nigod). Coming back into the human form will be very difficult. So beware; to take pleasure in raudradhyan will make you regress back to the lowest life form. So never do raudradhyan and if it occurs, then repent for it. Also, never do artadhyan, and if it occurs then repent for it. (224)