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[4] How Amazing is the Awareness of the Gnani Purush!
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Questioner: When we speak the truth, when we tell the
other person something openly and he feels bad, then why should
we do pratikraman for it?
Dadashri: No one can tell the truth. No one has yet been
born in India who can tell the truth. How can one tell the truth?
That truth is according to one’s own understanding, but it is
wrong according to the other’s understanding.
I do not see anyone doshit (at fault). This speech that
comes out is always associated with pratikraman. ‘This should
not be so’ – that is the opinion ‘we’ have, and it is separate from
the speech. How do ‘we’ see? ‘We’ see them flawless (nirdosh)
but why does the speech come out as it does? There should not
be any avarnavaad – to not say as it is. ‘We’ should remain
silent (maun). Now if ‘we’ remain silent, you will not realize
what occurred, and that too cannot be called the truth. This
cannot be the truth.
Except for Shuddhatma, Everything is Untrue
Questioner: What should I do if the other person takes
it wrong through his understanding?
Dadashri: All of these so called truths that you come
across are relative truths; they are false. They are right according
to the way of the world, but if you want to go to moksha, then
they are all wrong. Pratikraman should be done for each and
every thing. You should do pratikraman even for saying, ‘I am
a spiritual teacher (acharya),’ because this is a wrong belief. In
reality you are pure Self.
Therefore, everything is all wrong. Do you understand
this?
Questioner: Yes, I do indeed.
Dadashri: Everything is false. Because people do not
understand, they say, ‘I am telling the truth.’ Hey, you! If it were