Pratikraman 47
A large portion of effects of the deeds done in this life, is destroyed with pratikraman. When you do pratikraman, your karma will weaken like a burnt rope with its cinders intact, and will disintegrate at the slightest jolt. In your next life all you will have to do is shake off the cinders. Every act done in this life is an effect. Within it, unknown to the doer of the act, are the causes of next life. These causes give their results as effects in next life. For negative acts performed in this life, pratikraman changes the causes within, and therefore the desired result is the effect in the next life.
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12. Destroying Addiction with Gnan Questioner: I am addicted to smoking. What should I
Dadashri: Maintain from within, that this smoking is wrong. Furthermore never defend the act of smoking in any manner. If you do, it will only serve to reinforce and protect your habit. Admit that you have a weakness and that it is a bad habit. Only then will the time come that you will be able to break yourself of this addition. If you do not, then this addiction will stay with you forever.
I do pratikraman also. One must become free from all opinions held within. It is not acceptable to have an opinion of any kind.
By doing pratikraman one attains the ultimate thing. Technically pratikraman is required, but scientifically it is not necessary.
Questioner: How is it scientific?
Dadashri: Scientifically it is all a discharge. Everything that happens is an effect of past life causes. After this Gnan, you become completely separate from Chandulal. So why then do