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will improve and you will be able to go to moksha with such
pratikramans.
Lord Mahavir has said, “If you are a big businessman
(busy), then do pratikraman at night for all the atikraman done
during the day.” That is called ‘raishi’ pratikraman. And doing
pratikraman in the day for atikraman done during the night is
called ‘devshi’.
This is the Akram path and therefore pratikraman need to
be done after Self-realization. You have attained the knowledge
of the Self, but the old stock of past karma will cause you to do
atikraman and for that you have to do pratikraman. The
Shuddhatma i.e. the real Self does not have to do the
pratikraman; you have to make your mind, body and speech do
it. The doer-ship of ‘I am doing it’ is gone and as our real Self
form we are pure; therefore the Self does not have to do the
pratikraman. If the Shuddhatma does pratikraman it will become
poisonous. Shuddhatma, does not do pratikraman, but makes
the mind, body and speech complex do it. This path is the
Akram path, in which the Self is attained first, and then the
karmic debts have to be paid off. In Akram path first we stop
the inner turmoil and then we pay off our debts, whereas in the
Kramic path as one pays off his debts first, one comes into
Gnan and attains inner peace.
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