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(extraordinary spiritual effort)?
Dadashri: That is called purusharth. It is not called
parakram.
Questioner: Then what is parakram?
Dadashri: Parakram is higher than purusharth. This is
certainly not parakram. How can you call this parakram when
you are nursing a burn with a healing ointment? One ‘knows’ all
this and one also ‘knows’ this ‘Knower.’ That is parakram.
Doing pratikraman is purusharth. With continued pratikraman,
everything, including verbal conflict, will decrease. Everything
will decrease naturally. The ego is the first to go and then
everything else will follow. Everything will fall into place and you
will experience stillness from within. And there is peace within.
Do you feel such peace?
Questioner: Absolutely, Dada.
Dadashri: Yes. Then that is all we need.
The Spiritual Stages
Questioner: Please explain the fourteen spiritual stages
(gunasthanaks)?
Dadashri: The first three gunasthanaks are of no use.
They will not do for moksha. In those stages, one simply goes
to temples; that is all. He just wanders around, life after life.
When one attains right belief (samkit), he enters the fourth
gunasthanak. Before that there is wandering around in the first
three stages. There is enlightenment in the fourth gunasthanak.
One progresses from there on. He then comes into the fifth.
Then, as he does more and more pratikraman, he goes to the
sixth. That is how one progresses by doing pratikraman.
Four Levels of Intensity of Kashay
What have the writers of scripture written? Suppose this