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Pratikraman
Whatever you surrender is good. Having surrendered, sit
down and have a nice meal in comfort. Then there is no one out
there to scold you. There is no one superior to boss you around.
Your mistakes (I-ness) and your blunder (my-ness) were your
superiors before. Dada has destroyed your blunder and you will
have to wash off your mistakes. Do you ever see some five or
ten of your mistakes?
Questioner: I am beginning to see them. Five or ten
mistakes at a time – I ask for forgiveness for them.
Dadashri: No. You will have to learn to do pratikraman
because this is the Akram path. The Acharya (spiritual master
in Jain faith) may ask you why you are doing pratikraman,
having attained Self-realization. Do you understand? But this is
the Akram path so what do You (the Self) have to do? You (the
Self) do not have to do anything. You (the Self) have to tell
‘Chandubhai’ that, since he has done atikraman, he has to do
pratikraman. This is because You are free, but You cannot be
freed completely until ‘Chandubhai’ also becomes free. You will
have to cleanse all these subatomic karmic particles (parmanus)
within before you let them go. They had been spoilt through you
as the nimit.
Questioner: The bungling mess of ‘Chandubhai’ is still
there and it needs to be cleansed.
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Dadashri: Yes, it is not the Self that does the vidhi (special
ceremony) of Dada. ‘You’ have to tell ‘Chandubhai’ to do Dada’s
vidhi. You still have to purify things. So You as the Self have to
continue to ‘know’ as to how ‘Chandubhai’ did Dada’s vidhi
today? Did he do it well?
Continuously ‘knowing’ is ‘our’ job and constantly ‘doing’
is ‘Chandubhai’s’ job. ‘Chandubhai’ is the servant and You (the
Self) are the boss!
Questioner: I am glad I became the boss. I like this.