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[4] How Amazing is the Awareness of the Gnani Purush!
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done. If there is any undue exchange, then you have to do
pratikraman. The Lord has called this ‘pratikraman of
compassion.’
Flawless Vision Yet Flawed Speech
Now all these things that ‘we’ have to say like, ‘This is
not proper’; having spoken that way means ‘I’ stepped out of
syadvaad (that which is accepting of and acceptable to all)
speech. Yet it has to be said in order to put people on the right
path. But what does the Lord say? He says that this is proper
and so is that. A thief stealing is right and it is also right when
a person’s pocket is picked. The Lord is vitarag; he would not
meddle in this, whereas ‘we’ meddle in everything. This task of
meddling has fallen upon ‘us.’
Questioner: But that, too, is to remove all these ‘diseases’
from us, is it not?
Dadashri: Yes. It is to get people ready for liberation.
The intent behind this is good. This intent of ‘ours’ is for other
people; it is not for our self.
And along with that, it is ‘our’ conviction (pratiti) that no
one is at fault. In ‘our’ conviction everyone is flawless (nirdosh).
That conviction has completely changed and, therefore, ‘we’
speak this way knowing and believing that everyone is nirdosh.
Questioner: Do you say it with the understanding that
one is flawless (nirdosh)?
Dadashri: Yes.
Questioner: Then why do you have to do pratikraman?
Dadashri: But I should not say those things, not even a
word. How can anyone even speak such negative words? The
other person is not here and is not being hurt. And you do not
have any problem in believing that, as far as Dada is concerned,