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[20] Awareness When Words are Flowing in Speech…
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Dadashri: When such speech (vani) happens to come
out, it wounds the other person; then suffering/pain (dukh)
begins within him. How can you like that which hurts the other
person?
Questioner: Does that bind karma?
Dadashri: Is it not against the law of nature to hurt anyone?
And by doing so, have you not violated this law? When you
follow my Agnas, you are practicing dharma (following my
instruction), so then why not do pratikraman? What is wrong
in doing it? Ask for forgiveness and make a firm resolution not
to make the same mistake again. Is there even a need for you
to look for justice? If a person understands that the relative life
interaction (vyavahar) is exact as it is, then he would understand
the natural justice. It is because of your own past accounts that
your neighbor insults you. In the same token, it is because of the
other person’s past account that you speak harshly with him, but
because you want liberation, you have to do pratikraman.
Questioner: But what about the ‘bullet’ that has already
been fired?
Dadashri: That is dependant on the worldly interaction
(vyavahar).
Questioner: Will this kind of approach not increase a
revenge and vengeance cycle?
Dadashri: No, that is why we do pratikraman.
Pratikraman is not just to take us to moksha, but it is also the
direct phone call to God to block vengeance (veyr). Vengeance
is created if one does not do pratikraman. Immediately do
pratikraman when you realize that you have made a mistake;
then you will not bind any vengeance, even when the other
person wants to bind it, because pratikraman is the ‘phone
call’ directly to his Atma (the Self). There is no remedy for the
worldly life interaction. You do pratikraman if you want to go