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Aptavani-6
some people who have received Gnan Vidhi (mahatmas) who
do up to five hundred pratikramans a day.
Questioner: That is reversal of aggression in thoughts,
speech and actions by changing the inner intent (bhaav
pratikraman). That is not the ritual of pratikraman traditionally
practiced by the Jains with verbal recitations (kriya
pratikraman), is it?
Dadashri: No, there is no pratikraman in visible actions
(kriya). The most one gets in doing kriya pratikraman is a
calm mind.
Questioner: Is there a discharge of karma (nirjara) in it?
Dadashri: Discharge is occurring for every living being.
The intention to do pratikraman is good, and therefore the
discharge will be good. But pratikraman should be ‘shoot-on-
sight pratikraman.’ What you (addressing the Jain questioner)
are doing is effect-discharge pratikraman (dravya
pratikraman). For liberation, reversal of aggression in thoughts,
speech and actions by changing the inner intent (bhaav
pratikraman) is needed.
Questioner: There is inner intention (bhaav) along with
effect (dravya), is there not?
Dadashri: No, only dravya pratikraman is taking place;
there is no bhaav in it. This is because it is very difficult to have
bhaav in this the current era (Kaliyug). Bhaav only arises when
the Gnani Purush graces you by placing his hand on your head.
Otherwise bhaav cannot arise.
Who is a Gnani Purush? It is He who has no delving in
the state of the non-Self (parparinati), at all. He is constantly
in the state of the Self, day or night. His speech, conduct and
humility win over the minds of others. There is no trace of
adverse internal meditation that hurts the self (artadhyan) or of
adverse internal meditation that hurts the self and others