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karmic baggage will begin to lessen. If you do alochana,
pratikraman and pratyakhyan when sexual thoughts arise, they
will not arise. It is due to the baggage you have brought from
your past life that the thoughts arise. If you do alochana,
pratikraman and pratyakhyan, the baggage will empty completely.
That baggage has no choice but to empty eventually.
Questioner : Dada, I have a lot of moha (attachment)
towards material things. I like buying things for my house; I like
buying saris, etc. How should I do pratikraman for all that?
Dadashri : All that falls is nokarma (neutral discharging
karmas). They are yours if you are Chandulal but not otherwise.
You have to do pratikraman when that moha causes you
infatuation (murchha) and you become infatuated. This too is
your karmic baggage; hence you have to do alochana,
pratikraman and pratyakhyan for everything that comes out of
your karmic baggage. However, You should not be the one
doing pratikraman, You have to make ‘Chandulal’ do the
pratikraman. The one who does atikraman has to do pratikraman;
the pure Soul does not do anything, so why should You do
pratikraman?
As the knowing-seeing of Atma decreases, so does the
energy (shouriya) of the soul, but as the knowing-seeing of
Atma increases, the energies also increases.
One has attained the fourth gunasthanak (spiritual level)
when he starts pratikraman.
Do pratikraman for whatever atikraman and aakraman
(attacking nature) you have done. Good conduct or bad
conduct is not under anyone’s control; it is under the control of
some other power. However, you have to do pratikraman for all
atikraman and aakraman that occurs during bad conduct.
Aakraman and Atikraman
Questioner : What is the difference between aakraman