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

[23] When the Mind Becomes Turbulent 401 have to ask for forgiveness for yourself. Keep asking for forgiveness until you forget the words you had uttered. If you have said anything negative about Mahavir, you have to keep asking for forgiveness and it will be immediately erased. The ‘arrow’ you fired does reach Him, but He does not accept it. That is the Result of Defilement Questioner: There are forty Jain temples (derasars) in our town, but what kind of irreverence (ashatna) or other such reasons would have occurred that, to this day, there is no abhyudaya (prosperity or uplifting in the worldly life) in our town? Dadashri: It will occur. Prosperity will come. Now the time has come for prosperity. Questioner: Did some kind of sacrilege occur? Dadashri: Nothing like this will occur without sacrilege. Nothing but sacrilege and defilement has occurred; what else is there? Questioner: What can we do to prevent that from occurring? What can we do to remove it? Dadashri: It can be removed if you repent; if you do real pratikraman, it can be removed. There is no other way it can be removed. Keep repenting for the fact that sacrilege did occur; some changes will take place then. But only when everyone repents will the change take place. How much can you accomplish if you alone were to do it? *****

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