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Brahmcharya
Questioner : When can you say that the cloth has been
washed properly?
Dadashri : When you do pratikraman, you yourself will
feel that it has been washed properly.
Questioner : Should you feel remorse internally?
Dadashri: The remorse must remain. The remorse must
remain until your work (liberation) is done. You just have to
keep watching if he is remorseful or not. You have to do your
work, and he will do his.
Questioner : All this is very sticky, but some change is
occurring.
Dadashri : Whatever kind of fault was filled is what
comes out. But this will be emptied in five, ten or twelve years,
and then the ‘tank’ will be all cleared. Then it will be clean and
then you are free in everything.
Questioner : Once the seed has been sown, it will bring
forth its fruit, will it not?
Dadashri : The seeds are sown! It will bear fruit, but as
long as the roots have not taken a firm hold, there will be some
change in the intensity of the fruit. Therefore, before death one
can change the result to come, and be cleansed of it.
That is why we say to a person who has a lot of sexual
faults, or any other faults, to fast on Sunday and keep thinking
about the faults and cleansing them whole day. If this is done
with my agna, the faults will decrease.
Questioner : How do we do samayik-pratikraman for
matters related to sexual indulgence and impulses?
Dadashri : You have to do pratikraman for all the mistakes
that have occurred till today and make a firm decision not to