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260 Pratikraman Dadashri: If he uses words, she will strike back. So then he will ‘strike’ her with his mind. Even the wife will strike her husband with her mind if he has a tendency to retaliate. She will say in her mind, ‘I will take care of him when the time is right,’ and then she waits for the right moment! Questioner: In a situation if someone is saying negative things about me, I end up reacting angrily and saying things out loud in anger and attack. Which is worse, hurting others through spoken words or just through the mind? Dadashri: Saying through words? Did you fight with him through words? Questioner: Yes. Dadashri: Quarrels created through words will give their effect here and now, and will dissipate right away, whereas quarrels through the mind will progress further. When you say things verbally, the other person will answer back and so you will face the consequences right away. But quarrels fought though the mind will sow seeds first, then, when that karma matures, it will give fruits. So now you are sowing the seeds – creating the cause. So you should do pratikraman so that this ‘cause’ is not created. Pratikraman for Attachment Questioner: All the pratikramans we have done so far are for anger (krodh) or abhorrence (dwesh) that occurred. But do we have to do pratikraman for attachment (raag), or not? Dadashri: You do not have to do pratikraman for attachment (raag). All you have to do is stop raag. That is all. Questioner: How can we stop that? Dadashri: ‘I want to become vitarag, so I have to stop raag.’ If you want to reach another station (vitarag) fast, then don’t you have to get up from where you are right now (station

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