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dwesh there. By doing pratikraman, you will be rid of the
‘stickiness’ that binds you. At night you will remember the ones
towards whom you have attachment and you will also remember
the ones for whom you have abhorrence. People have
attachment towards money. People have attachment towards the
wife. The only attachment worth having, it is the attachment for
the Gnani. ‘We’ have neither attachment nor abhorrence; ‘we’
are completely vitarag.
‘I am Chandulal’, is the false location which has occurred
because of raag-attachment. This means that there is abhorrence
towards the Self (swaroop). What is the principle? When raag
exists at one location, then dwesh exists at the other end,
because raag and dwesh are two sides of the same coin. This
is the nature of duality (dwandva). So become a vitarag. A
Vitarag is beyond all duality (dwandvatita).
If you lend hundred thousand rupees, no one will come
near you, but if you owe anything, someone will definitely come
to collect. And what is this debt that you owe? It is a debt of
vengeance. All attachment leads to a debt of vengeance, which
in turn leads to attachment, which leads to vengeance. This verily
is what perpetuates the worldly life. Vitarag Lords knew that
one has to finish the account of suffering of debts and credits
before he can be liberated. A person will move towards
liberation only when he realizes that vitarag Lords can give
liberation. You can only find liberation with the vitarag Lords, no
where else.
It should be such that raag does not arise when one is
praised and dwesh does not arise when one is criticized.
Compliments (vakhan) or criticism (vakhod) are two sons of
the same mother, so why differentiate between them? We should
be able to give both; we should be able to praise as well as
criticize. We should not keep our mouth shut in either situations;
the difference is only in the inner intent (bhaav). If you take a