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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
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Questioner: Yes, but the food did not go in our stomach;
it remained on the outside.
Dadashri: So with these pratikramans, if the Lord were
here, he would put everyone in prison. You fool! Is this what
you do? Pratikraman means to ask for forgiveness for one
mistake and to purify that mistake. If there is one stain, you
clean that stain until it is gone. You make that spot as clean as
it was before; that is called pratikraman. Today we see nothing
but stained cloths.
Here, one has not done pratikraman for even a single
mistake and, on the contrary, he has accumulated warehouses of
mistakes.
Why has Niruben’s conduct and thinking become so
elevated? The answer is because every day she does five hundred
or so pratikraman whereas these people haven’t done even
one.
Rayshi-Devshi Pratikraman
Pratikraman means to reduce fault. If the fault is not
decreasing, then one is not doing real pratikraman but he is
doing atikraman. On the contrary, he is increasing his faults.
Instead, these two Kutchhi brothers, Rayshi and Devshi, are
preferable (Kutch is the western part of Gujarat where names of
men end with ‘shi’).
Questioner: ‘Rayshi-devshi’ is some living being,’ is just
a figment of imagination according to Krupadudev.
Dadashri: But people understand that this is ‘rayshi’ and
that is ‘devshi,’ do they not? So then this is Devshi’s brother.
So a man sat down to do pratikraman in Kutch. He did
pratikraman of Rayshi. So another person hears that many
people do pratikraman of Devshi, some do it of Rayshi; so
then why don’t they do pratikraman for our Khetshi? Are there
not names like Rayshi and Devshi?