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hundreds of thousands more layers still remain. So you have to
keep doing pratikraman until all the layers are shed. With some
people, all the layers are shed, by doing pratikraman for a
month to two, whereas with some others it will take a whole
lifetime if the karmic tuber is large. When you peel off one layer
of an onion, it still looks like an onion, does it not?
Questioner: Yes.
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Dadashri: Similarly, this has such layers. When you do
pratikraman, you shed that one layer for sure and you do not
have to do any more pratikraman for that particular layer. Only
one pratikraman per layer of mistake is necessary.
One Has to Become Free from His Own Bondage
He was not likely to survive that accident but he did. One
can survive those worldly accidents, but you survived the
tremendous accidents that occur on the path of kashays and
you became liberated from the path of kashays.
Questioner: And if I were to walk that path of kashays,
then accidents would be inevitable; that much I understand now.
Dadashri: You know that it is bound to occur.
Questioner: So I keep doing pratikraman, then I will
have the solution. Whatever negativity I feel about all these people,
they feel the same about me too, and thus they will trap me. So
if I keep doing pratikraman, then what about the negativity they
have towards me? Will they put me in karmic bondage again?
Dadashri: No, you have to become free from your bondage
and they have to free themselves from their own bondage.
Otherwise, one will remain bound forever. This is the law of
Lord Mahavir. Otherwise, Lord Mahavir would never have been
free, would he? Some bondage would have remained and He
would not have been free. You have to become free from
wherever you are bound.