Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts (Full Version) Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts | Page 344

[14] Release from Bondage of Inner Enemies 285 is so for infinite lives. Pratikraman as done by the ascetics and the acharyas cannot destroy mistakes; it binds merit karma (punya). Whereas pratikraman as prescribed by the Gnani Purush is ‘shoot-on-sight’ pratikraman, it is done the moment the mistake occurs. All these mahatmas have so much awareness that they see their mistakes the moment they occur. They see thousands of their mistakes the moment they arise, because they have become free from kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Unawareness (ajagruti) is due to kashays. Questioner: If one does no atikraman towards anyone and has no active, ongoing kashay, how can he remain a hundred percent in the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta) state? Dadashri: No, it is not like that. He may not have atikraman towards anyone even in his thought, but his mind is always in some kind of kashay. If it is not in raag (attachment), it is in dwesh (abhorrence). Kashay is always there when one is not in the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta) state. Questioner: Is there always some kind of kashay in a thought that is going on? Dadashri: It is always there. It is always there for sure, but kashay is not there in the thoughts that one can ‘see.’ Questioner: That entire ball of confusion comes and goes and only afterwards do I become aware of it. Dadashri: No, You can ‘see’ (joyee) it, and then you know (janavoo) it. Still, until then it is considered a kashay. Questioner: I ‘see’ it after fifteen or twenty minutes have passed. Dadashri: Kashay stops our jagruti (awareness) and so it will not allow us to remain as the Knower-Seer. And if you have the worst of thoughts, and You keep ‘seeing’ them, then no part of kashay will touch you.