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Pratikraman
worldly life means to accept it any way you can and somehow
pass your life. Right now it is the reign of Kaliyug, what can one
do in it? There is no safe side anywhere. Consider this the safe
side and go to sleep. Sincerity and morality are gone forever.
Therefore, take this Gnan; then you can be happy forever. You
will have no obstacles like these. Oh! It will be wonderful.
Inadequate Pratikraman is Due to Lack of
Awareness
Questioner: If someone does not come here anymore
because I have upset him, and then egotistically I say, ‘I have
done my pratikraman. Now what can I do if he does not come
anymore?’ What about that?
Dadashri: But that is all wrong. In a way, it did occur
because of you, through you as a nimit, did it not? So you
should do whatever you can. Then, if nothing occurs, so be it.
If it does not occur, that does not mean that you have to destroy
yourself.
Questioner: That is right. But here we are talking about
one’s inner understanding, what a person should have in his
understanding. I have done my pratikraman; I do not have any
negative feelings towards him. If one shoots the bullet, then he
can do this much (pratikraman) and it is easy for him to erase
it all, but the one who got ‘shot by his bullet’ is still hurting, is
he not?
Dadashri: But he must be hurting so much that he does
not come here to do darshan. He should be feeling, ‘I met this
useless person, so that is why I can’t go there.’ That is why you
have to settle the matter with equanimity, don’t you?
Questioner: The other thing is that how can I know that
the pratikraman I have done has been effective and that I no
longer have any opinions about him? How can I know that my
opinions about him have been wiped off one hundred percent?