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‘tickles your fancy’ and tempts you, just for one life; besides,
now only half the life remains. It is not even one full lifetime
anymore, is it?
Bow Down to His Shuddhatma and Then…
Questioner: When you told us to do pratikraman for
our friends and relatives, do we just have to ‘see’ it all or do we
have to say something?
Dadashri: You have to say it in your mind.
Questioner: Having attachment (raag) for anyone is a
mistake and having abhorrence (dwesh) against anyone is also
a mistake, so do I have to do pratikraman for that?
Dadashri: Not just raag-dwesh. You have to say a lot
of other things. You have to say that you are doing alochana,
pratikraman and pratyakhyan for whatever mistakes you have
made in this life, and countless previous lives, due to ignorance.
Questioner: Is that for the raag-dwesh of this life and of
countless past lives?
Dadashri: Raag-dwesh, all the mistakes made in
ignorance, any accusations, for hurting someone’s ego; you have
to mention all that and when you say all that, your one file is
cleared. Then you have to take the next file, clear it and dismiss
it just like the doctor dismisses his patients.
‘We’ also cleared out all the accounts with people in
‘our’ village – people who lived on ‘our’ street – ‘we’ searched
for all of them. Only mistakes done in ignorance are bound.
Have you bound mistakes like those at all?
Questioner: Many.
Do As Dadashri Has Instructed; Do Not Add
Anything Else
Questioner: I have read in a book that if one does