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win your mind over. That speech, conduct and humility will win
over minds. It wins the minds of others. And only then is it
possible for this world to become free. Otherwise, if they read
books, scriptures and do other kriyas (rituals), those actions will
give results. Many kriyas are such that they will give effects.
God’s law is that whatever kriya (action) you do; you will have
to suffer the consequences, pleasant or painful, of that action…
without fail. So if you have the desire to enjoy the fruits of your
actions, then continue doing the actions which, in turn, will sow
new seeds of causes. Hence this problem of cause and effect
will continue!
Dadashri Talks About His Pratikraman
Questioner: I liked one thing you had said. You said that
your pratikraman occurs even before the mistake occurs. (472)
Dadashri: Yes. These pratikramans that occur are the
‘shoot-on-sight’ kind. They start even before the mistake has
occurred. We could not even know where it came from. That
is because it is the fruit of awakened awareness (jagruti). And
absolute awareness is called Keval Gnan (absolute knowledge).
What else? Awakened awareness is the main thing.
Just now ‘we’ did atikraman towards the sanghapati
(the head of the association), and pratikraman for that is already
done. Our pratikraman occurs simultaneously. ‘We’ talk and
‘we’ even do pratikraman. If ‘we’ do not speak, things will not
occur.
Questioner: Dada, the same thing happens to us too
sometimes. We could be saying something hurtful and
pratikraman is also occurring simultaneously. But the way You
are doing it and the way we are doing it; we see the difference
between the two.
Dadashri: ‘Ours’ is different. How can we compare this
difference? It is like the difference in the smoothness between