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Observation:
You should see a cloudy mixture. The
oil and water are no longer in separate
layers. It is called an Emulsion.

What happened (Inference):
Normally, oil and water don't mix, so they
separate into two different layers. Soap
breaks up the oil into smaller drops, which can
mix with the water. It works because soap is
made up of molecules with two very different
ends. One end of soap molecules love water they are hydrophilic. The other end of soap
molecules hate water - they are hydrophobic.
Hydrophobic ends of soap molecule attach to
the oil. Hydrophilic ends stick out into the
water. These drops of oil are suspended in the
water.
Daily Use of this experiment
This is how soap cleans our hands - it causes
drops of grease and dirt to be pulled off your
hands and suspends them in water. These
drops are washed away when you rinse your
hands.
Spiritual Science:
Dadashri used to say, if you want to remove a
postage stamp stuck to an envelope, you
need not scratch the stamp or the envelope.
All that you need to do is to dilute the gum
(sticky substance) that binds the stamp with
the envelope so that it becomes liquid again
and loses its intensity to hold the stamp. As a
result, the stamp falls down on its own.

The same phenomenon is seen with the use of
soap and how it deforms the oil/water
molecules so that they lose their strength to
hold the dirt.
The same science applies in
spirituality as well. Whenever someone is
hurt by us, we need to do pratikaman. How
does it help? Just as in above experiment,
soap breaks up the oil particles, to remove the
gap between water and oil, similarly
pratikraman breaks the raag-dwesh and thus
diluting the strength to hold the dirt – the
kashays (Anger, Pride, Deceit, Greed and
other vices). As a result the distance
decreases between people, bringing them
closer to each other.
The positive vibes of repentance
reaches the pure soul within that person and
softens up his ego by diluting the layers of
negative opinions or grudges that he might
have formed for us. True pratikaman
destroys the link of charging bad
karmas. Dadashri emphasized that
“Pratikaman” is the most powerful
tool and he had applied it
intensely to wash his faults.

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