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Pratikraman
If there is no pratikraman, then that truth is not the truth at all.
The truth of this world is not the truth in nischay from the real
viewpoint.
That Current Flows from the Stream of
Compassion
‘We’ immediately apply the ‘medicine’ (pratikraman) and
then ‘we’ remain vitarag. ‘We’ do not have any raag-dwesh
(attachment-abhorrence). ‘We’ are ready to apply the medicine.
However, if by any chance a slight dislike (abhaav) occurs
towards someone, which usually never occurs, but in case it
should, then ‘we’ have the medicine of pratikraman which ‘we’
apply immediately. There is an instant medicine of pratikraman,
is there not?
It is in this life that I speak this way about the priests
(maharaj). I speak about everyone who is doing wrong in every
religious path in the world. As if I am the King of all the religions!
That is how I speak about people! As if it is only my concern.
But what concern is it of ‘ours’? I am just one of the men! And
I should not speak in this manner, but people should become
free from all this (ignorance). So by speaking this way, I have
invited demerit karma! In due time, if there are any demerit
karmas that have to be suffered; only then will I have to suffer
them. Otherwise, I have not created any other kind of demerit
karma and there are no other demerit karmas that I have created
for myself.
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The rule is that you can talk to anyone about Gnan. But
if that person is not capable of accepting it, or if he is a little
slow, then you have to present it slowly. You have to become
vitarag. But behind all this ‘we’ have compassion towards
people such that, ‘These people, having come this far, should
gain something. They have so much ‘fever’ and yet they are not
taking the medicine! The medicine is ready!’ But this (approach)
is not considered as per rules and hence pratikraman has to be