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[11] Purusharth Against Bad Qualities of Prakruti
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Subatomic Particles of Jealousy
Questioner: What can I do to stop jealousy?
Dadashri: There are two ways to deal with that. One is
to repent when he experiences such feelings. The other is to
realize that jealousy is the result, or effect, from your previous
life, and it just occurs. You, the Self, are not being jealous.
Feelings of jealousy are parmanus (subatomic particles) brought
over from the past life. If You do not accept them, if You do not
become engrossed (tanmayakar) with them, they will go away.
It is best if you do pratikraman when jealousy arises.
Pratikraman Frees You from the Poison of
Suspicion
Questioner: I do not want to be suspicious about anyone,
but despite this, if it occurs, how can I become free from it?
Dadashri: If that occurs, you have to invoke the pure
Self of that person and ask for forgiveness. You should do
pratikraman for that. These doubts and suspicions arise because
of mistakes you made in your previous lifetime.
Questioner: Whatever we have to suffer due to unfolding
of our karma (udayakarma), does it decrease if we do
pratikraman?
Dadashri: It will decrease. And ‘You’ do not have to
suffer it. ‘You’ have to tell ‘Chandubhai’ to do pratikraman,
then it will go down. However much pratikraman you do, it will
decrease by that much. Then there will not be anymore problems.
It is due to unfolding of karma that everyone has come
together. Neither the gnani nor an agnani (non-Self-realized)
person can change it. So why should one incur two losses?
Questioner: You said it right, Dada; that this world has
been this way from the beginning.
Dadashri: There is nothing more to this. It appears