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Dadashri : No it was between the rainy season and the
summer
Questioner : Was it July?
Dadashri : It was not July, it was June. I did not pay
much attention to that. The enlightenment was all I cared about
at the time.
Questioner : People will fret to look for it later on, will
they not?
Dadashri : It will be discovered when they try hard
enough surely. It will come about when there will be a need
for it.
Do Pratikraman This Way
At that time because of my ignorance, before Gnan I had
a tremendous ego: ‘This man is like this and so and so is like
that’ – there was nothing but contempt, contempt, contempt,
contempt…but I would also praise people. On the one hand I
would praise one person and be disgusted with another. Then
after 1958, after Gnan, I told ‘A.M.Patel’ to purify all his
mistakes of contempt he had for others. I told him to apply the
‘soap’ of pratikraman and cleanse everything. That is what ‘I’
did. I recalled every individual, all my neighbors, my aunts and
my uncles and all my relatives. Contempt was directed towards
everyone. I washed off all those mistakes.
Questioner : Did you do pratikraman in your mind or in
person?
Dadashri : I told Ambalal Patel that I could see where
he had done wrong to others and that he needed to wash away
all those wrong doings. I showed him how to do it. I told him
to recall all his misdeeds; for example if he had chided and
verbally abused Chandubhai all his life and had been