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suffer, but it can be made lighter, less bitter.
Questioner: Is there a change in the suffering?
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Dadashri: Yes. If one person gets hurt in a certain part
of his body, he will not be able to bear the pain; whereas
another person will put bandages on his wound and move about
freely.
Questioner: When the shepherd forced bamboo needles
in Lord Mahavir’s ears….
Dadashri: That was nikachit karma.
Questioner: He was a God, so it should have become
lighter for him?
Dadashri: No, it did not become light.
Questioner: Then how can it become lighter for people
like us?
Dadashri: It can still become lighter if you try. He was
a special person and so he would not make it lighter. He was
a King when he had ordered his servants to pour hot lead in his
guard’s ears and he did not do any pratikraman for it either.
Questioner: But he had done that knowingly, and I have
pierced needles in bed bugs and killed them…
Dadashri: Do people poke needles into them? What kind
of a person are you? Just because they do not have parents to
defend them? Why don’t you do that to people?
Questioner: Now give me a solution for that, please. I
have done many such deeds; what should I do about that?
Dadashri: Pratikraman, do pratikraman! Take some
bed bugs, put them in a cup, look at their bodies and do
pratikraman, then feed them, let them bite you, and then let
them go.