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Pratikraman
(ajaanta), you should feel repentance immediately, and that it
should not be so. You should repent for it and do pratyakhyan.
Keep the awareness that it does not occur again. This should be
Your goal. The Lord had told us to be firm and resolute in our
intent (bhaav) not to hurt any living thing. Every morning when
you begin your day, you should repeat this five times: ‘I do not
wish to hurt any living being through this mind, speech and body.’
Start your day by affirming this intent. This will decrease the liability.
This is because the intent is under your control. The rest is not.
Do Mistakes Made Unknowingly Bind Demerit
Karma?
All the positive and negative inner intents that arise within
is the result of seeds sown in the past. You do not desire to hurt
any living being and yet if a bug gets crushed under your foot,
realize that such was the seed sown in the past. Maintain
awareness there and do pratikraman.
How do you know what kind of enmity the bug you
crushed will bind? How great an enmity will the one that is
unknowingly killed bind? It is because that bug has a wife and
children, and relatives, does it not? They will think that you
crushed it; you murdered it knowingly. You may feel that you did
it unknowingly, but they think that their loved one was murdered.
It, too, has a worldly life, does it not? It has a worldly life
wherever it goes, does it not?
Questioner: Do we still commit a sin if we hurt someone
unknowingly?
Dadashri: What will occur if you accidentally put your
hand in a fire?
Questioner: My hand would get burned.
Dadashri: Would a child not get burned too?
Questioner: Yes, he would.