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Questioner: After attaining Gnan, when one becomes
antaratma (awakened pure Self; Shuddhatma), do faults then
begin to decrease?
Dadashri: One will begin to ‘see’ the mistakes and the
mistakes will decrease. His vision will turn towards his own
faults. As long as one is an embodied self (jivatma), as long as
one is a moodhatma (not awakened to the Self), one will know
how to see other’s faults. If you ask him about his own faults,
he will tell you he has only two or three and that otherwise he
has no faults, but the other person is full of faults!
Pratikraman for Those Who Are Not Self-
realized
Questioner: Is pratikraman only for those who have
taken Gnan or is it also for those who have not taken Gnan?
Dadashri: It is like this; pratikraman is there even for
those who have not taken Gnan; the same word is applicable for
all. It is simply a term, but how can those who have not taken
Gnan have awareness? How can they do pratikraman without
the awareness of the Self?
In which time cycle did such awareness exist? After Lord
Rushabhdev, the disciples of all the twenty-two Tirthankars
used to be very aware. They constantly did ‘shoot-on-sight’
pratikraman.
Such awareness only arises when ‘we’ give Gnan,
otherwise, the awareness can never be there. Otherwise, people
are asleep (spiritually) with open eyes; that is what the scripture
says.
Questioner: Can people who are not Self-realized only
see certain kinds of faults?
Dadashri: That is all; only that much. You simply have to
tell them to learn to ask for forgiveness for their mistakes.