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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
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with extreme caution so as not to hurt any living being), starting
from the first gunasthanak (qualities evident in the relative from
progressively higher levels of spirituality) to the twelfth
gunasthanak. What is iriyapathiki kriya? As long as the ego
is present, there is iriyapathiki kriya. Therefore, there is no
more iriyapathiki kriya once the state of kshayak-samkit is
attained (Permanent conviction of the right belief, ‘I am pure
Soul’). After kshayak-samkit, the ego no longer remains and
thus there cannot be any iriyapathiki kriya.
Iriyapathiki action (pratikraman) means to do alochana,
pratikraman and pratyakhyan for any wrongdoing that occurs
when one goes out and does things as ‘Chandubhai.’
After one’s ego is gone, there is no such thing as ‘action’
for him. There is action as long as the ego is present. The
Kramic path means that the ego is present until the end; until
one attains final liberation. There is no ego in this Akram path,
it there?
Did you understand some of it?
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Questioner: Yes, then we have to do pratikraman.
Dadashri: ‘You’ do not have to do iriyapathiki
pratikraman. You do that in the Kramic path. If in this Akram
path you do the pratikraman, then it would prove that you are
the owner of the body.
Questioner: That is right.
Dadashri: What occurs when ‘You—the awakened one
in Akram’ become the doer?
Questioner: It means that it is being done with the
understanding that, ‘I am the body.’
Dadashri: That proves it.
Questioner: With that proof, everything becomes