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[6] The Thorns Vanish and the Blossoms Remain
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Questioner: What if the other person does not forgive
me for my atikraman, despite my pratikraman?
Dadashri: Do not be concerned about the other person.
Don’t worry about others forgiving you. The nature of aggression
(atikraman) in you should go away. You should become an
opponent of atikraman. That is how it should be.
Questioner: What if the other person continues to feel
hurt?
Dadashri: Do not be concerned about the other person.
Be firm in your conviction that you are an adversary of
atikraman. It is not your wish to do atikraman but if it occurs,
you should feel remorse and your intent should be that you do
not want it to happen again.
Questioner: I now have the courage to say ‘sorry’ to the
other person. I will do pratikraman if any atikraman occurs.
Dadashri: Not a single person is yet born on this earth
who has the ability to do even a hair’s worth (the slightest) of
work.
Questioner: How can it be acceptable if a person
intentionally does atikraman, when both the parties are destroying
each other off? Then is it possible to become free by doing
pratikraman?
Dadashri: What else can you do? This is all a process to
turn back from ignorance (bhranti – wrong belief; illusion). It is
not worth delving deep into this. Our concern is just with what
works.
Here, ‘we’ have not left anything unanswered. All you
have to do is to follow the Agnas. Sometimes, if you have to
ask, go ahead and ask. But do not ‘dissect’ too much; do not
try to analyze anything, otherwise you will ‘lose it’! The buddhi
will take over and you will be led astray by it. This is nothing but
mischief of the buddhi.