[ 6 ] The Thorns Vanish and the Blossoms Remain 123
Dadashri: So if you doze off once, it does not mean you bind karma because of that. When do you bind karma? It is when you believe,‘ I am Chandulal.’ The result of dozing is that karma effect remains pending; it remains incomplete. So the effect will come later on again. The effect of dozing( lack of awakened awareness) will come. No karma should be left incomplete. If you doze off, lose awareness, there will be consequences to that. It will not be the same as the effect of‘ doership,’ but there will be the effect of a karma that is pending and it will remain so until it is settled with equanimity.
Only the Pratikraman Remains
Questioner: So, Dada, the only thing that remains is pratikraman, right?
Dadashri: Only pratikraman, and that, too, only if atikraman occurs. Really, atikraman does not occur all day long; everything runs smoothly. If there is some dispute over a certain dish on the dining table, then that is atikraman. Now this atikraman is not a mistake of today; it is from the past life. It is a charitra mohaniya( discharging illusory conduct). Today, we do not like it at all, but it occurs all the same, does it not?
Charitra moha – The conduct of the non-Self that remains after the Self has separated. It is, as Dadashri says,‘ Discharge moha.’ The awakened one within is free from the illusion and hence it is called charitra moha, discharge moha, as opposed to the illusion of the worldly being whose moha is called darshan moha because he believes that he is‘ Chandulal’ and that it is happening to him.
Atikraman and Aakraman
Pratikraman must be done for both – atikraman( aggression in thoughts, speech and acts) and aakraman( attacking nature.) Aakraman must not exist in us. Aakraman means attacking nature. Aakraman means one would constantly