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Pratikraman
those people are flawless (nirdosh). Then why did Dada speak
such harsh words? That is why I have to do pratikraman.
There should be no harsh words.
Questioner: You always remain detached (vitarag), even
when you are saying something, so why do you have to do
pratikraman?
Dadashri: Because there is separation, ‘I’ (the Self) do
not have to say it. It is to the one within, the one who says
everything, that one has to do the pratikraman, and I tell him,
‘Go ahead and do pratikraman.’ And ‘You’ have the same.
‘You’ do not have to do the pratikraman. ‘You’ (the Self) have
to tell ‘Chandubhai’ (the non-Self) to do it. ‘You’ do not have
to do pratikraman; the one who did atikraman (wrong doing),
has to do the pratikraman.
Questioner: How is the pratikraman for that mistake?
Dadashri: Pratikraman has to be done afterwards. The
mistake is never about Gnan. ‘We’ may have been harsh towards
someone who was going against syadvaad (acceptable of all
and to all). Harshness would not occur when there is syadvaad
in speech. This is syadvaad but not absolute syadvaad, is it?
Therefore, when Keval Gnan occurs, there will be absolute
syadvaad.
Absolute Vision Shows Mistakes
‘Our’ Gnan is non-contradictory and the speech is not
absolutely syadvaad (acceptable of all and to all). Someone
may get hurt in the process of speaking. Whereas this is not so
with Tirthankars’ speech; nobody will get hurt from their speech.
A Tirthankar’s speech is absolutely syadvaad. They speak
without scolding anybody. They speak similarly, however, without
hurting anyone.
Questioner: Your syadvaad speech is not absolute