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Pratikraman
What is sarvavirati? It is where You do not see any
mistake in anyone. Even when someone is insulting you, You do
not see mistakes in him. That is sarvavirati. There is no higher
sarvavirati than this.
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When you no longer see mistakes in anyone, know that
you have attained the state of stillness, the state of the Self, even
amidst the din of the worldly life. This state in Akram Vignan
is very different. Even while enjoying life’s pleasures, one sees
the world as flawless.
Akram Vignan’s sarvavirati state is that in which one
does not see the slightest mistake in anyone. That is the state of
sarvavirati; just know this much. Thereafter, I have no problems
with whether or not one wears cologne and fragrances, as long
as he sees no mistakes in others. Even if he gets bitten by a
snake, he will not see any mistake of the snake. Such is our
science.
Questioner: Thereafter, in that state in the path of Akram,
there is no need for pratikraman, is there?
Dadashri: Then there is no need for pratikraman. But
do not assume that you do not see any mistakes; instead do
pratikraman. What are you going to lose by doing that? In
trying to find something new like that, you may take it in the
wrong direction.
The one who has become free from abhorrence
(vitadwesh) will be liberated in one more lifetime (ekavtari). If
elements of abhorrence remain, then it may take a person three
or four more lives to attain moksha.
No Kashay for the One Who ‘Sees’
Mistakes will be erased if one does pratikraman given
by the Gnani Purush. Otherwise, the mistakes will not leave.
One binds merit karma (punya) for doing pratikraman and this