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( raudradhyan). And with the total dissolution of the ego, and the resultant tension-free state, his constant liberating laughter( mukta hasya) is clearly evident to all. Such a one, who is a storehouse of infinite attributes, is a Gnani Purush.
The Gnani’ s Pratikraman
If you are sleeping on the ground and there are pebbles poking and bothering you from under the rug, would you not remove them? Pratikraman only needs to be done wherever something bothers and upsets you. You remove whatever bothers you and another removes whatever bothers him. Every person’ s pratikraman is different.
There are cases where a person keeps obliging others but at home, his conduct is improper, so he has to do pratikraman there. One has to do pratikraman whenever anything bothers him from within. Each individual’ s pratikraman is different.
‘ We’ too have to do pratikraman;‘ ours’ is different and yours is different. You will not be able to see‘ our’ mistakes through your intellect. Therefore, they are subtlest( sookshmatam) and subtler( sookshmatar).‘ We’ have to do pratikraman for them.‘ We’ have to do pratikraman for not remaining in focused awareness as the Self( upayog).
‘ We’ can never afford to forego our focused awareness as the Self( upayog), can we?‘ We’ have to talk with all these people;‘ we’ have to answer their questions but, nevertheless,‘ we’ have to remain in‘ our’ upayog.
‘ We’ do not have to do pratikraman as long as spontaneity and naturalness( sahajikata) are there. In the state of naturalness, even‘ You’ do not have to do pratikraman. Any deviation from naturalness requires pratikraman. Whenever you see‘ us,’ you will see‘ us’ as spontaneous and natural( sahaj). You will see‘ us’ the same whenever you see‘ us.’ There will be no change in‘ our’ spontaneity and naturalness.
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