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Aptavani-2
are quick to wash the stains on your clothes, to prevent it from
setting in. Human beings are like this, if they spill tea on their
clothes, they will rush to wash off the stain, whereas they have
no care about washing off the stains that have tainted their minds
from countless past lives. Pratikraman should be a cash
business; nothing should be left pending. Why is it that people’s
‘clothes’ remain dirty despite doing pratikraman every day? Is
it because they do not have the right soap, or their clothes are
the wrong kind, or the water is dirty? Why else would their
clothes not become clean if they wash them everyday? It is
because no one can see their own faults, so how can they do
pratikraman? Our mahatmas do two hundred to five hundred
pratikramans everyday and wash off their faults. One can go to
moksha in two hours if he has five hundred thousand faults left,
but if you ask these people, they will claim they have only two
or three faults!
Questioner : Is it true that one has to go to a religious
place to do pratikraman?
Dadashri : You can do pratikraman even while drinking
tea or taking a bath. One has to be concerned about location if
he is involved in worldly religious practices of the body, the mind
or the intellect (deha-dharma, mano-dharma and buddhi-
dharma). However, ours is the religion of the Soul (Atmadharma)
and therefore we are not concerned with the physical body, so
you are free to do pratikraman anywhere you like.
Many consider bathing is the only religion. That is why
their religion has not progressed further. Those who are involved
in deha-dharma have large quantities of parmanu of attachment
in them and if someone were to insult them, they will see that
person as a culprit and regard him one hundred percent guilty.
In the same situation, a person with greater spiritual development
will accept that the fault lies in his own karma. He makes
progress by accepting that his ‘dirty clothes’ (karmic load) are