Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts (Full Version) Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts | Page 416

[20] Awareness When Words are Flowing in Speech…
357
instrumental (nimit) in hurting anyone. And if someone continues
to hurt, that is his own karma. Make sure that you do not
become the nimit for his pain.
Questioner: Still, what if in fury, or passion, I end up
saying something hurtful?
Dadashri: Then do pratikraman.
Pratikraman is Necessary Even if You Are Joking
When you raise your voice and someone gets hurt or,
alas, even if you were joking with someone and that person is
a little weak and puts up with your joking, then you have done
atikraman. ‘We’ do joke with people but it is innocent fun and
jokes. ‘We’ joke to remove their ‘disease’ and to make them
stronger. ‘We’ have some fun and joy, and at the same time that
person continues to make progress. But ‘our’ joke does not
hurt him. Should there not be some joking and fun like that? He
too will understand that ‘we’ are joking and that ‘we’ are not
poking fun at him.
Now, whenever ‘we’ make fun of someone, ‘we’ have to
do pratikraman for that also. ‘We’ are not exempt from that.
Questioner: Yes, but that’s just simply having fun. Surely
there is no problem with that.
(340)
Dadashri: No, but even then ‘we’ have to do
pratikraman. It is not so necessary for you, but it is imperative
for ‘us.’ If ‘we’ do not do pratikraman, then the words from
this taped record (speech of the Gnani) would not come out as
clear.
Questioner: Your pratikraman must be occurring on the
spot, a ‘shoot-on-sight’ pratikraman!
Dadashri: Yes. In that ‘we’ have no bad intent, yet it is
considered a kashay (inner enemy) of laughter. Even though