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Aptavani-6
everything.
‘Chandubhai’ is the one doing pratikraman; what do
You have to do with it? ‘You’ have to see whether ‘Chandubhai’
did the pratikraman or not, or whether he pushed it aside. If
he pushed it aside, You will know that too.
To ‘keep seeing’ what ‘Chandubhai’ does is independent
spiritual effort (purusharth). To miss this ‘seeing’ is spiritual
laziness, lack of awareness (pramaad).
Questioner: Is it the work of the pure Soul (Shuddhatma)
to ‘keep seeing’?
Dadashri: That work can be done after realizing the Self;
otherwise it cannot be done.
Why does a memory event (yaad) arise? It cannot come
without a cause and a reason. It will happen only if there is some
complaint (fariyaad). Why does no memory event arise for
‘us’? No one has a complaint against ‘us.’ Therefore, whatever
yaad arises for you, keep doing pratikraman for it.
Questioner: Whatever old baggage there is within, it all
must come as memory events; is that the way it should be?
Dadashri: That will definitely come. Whatever stock is
going to discharge, or charge a new life, will come as a memory
event (yaad), without fail. If one is Self-realized, that karmic
baggage will discharge and, in the absence of Self-realization,
the very same karma will charge new karma and create bondage.
The baggage is the same, but in the absence of Self-realization,
it forms a karmic seed and, in the presence of Self-realization,
the seed is roasted and consumed. Where is the potential for the
seed to germinate and grow once it is roasted?
Repentance from the Heart
Thoughts sprout from the tubers that lie within. Thoughts
sprout when the evidences arise. A person may otherwise look