Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts (Full Version) Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts

452 Pratikraman have so much awareness that he will not fail to do ‘shoot-on- sight’ pratikraman. He does not miss seeing a single mistake. That is why all the mistakes go away and one constantly remains kashay-free (saiyam). I have told everyone to eat whatever they enjoy; eat all they wish – and yet they remain in saiyam. Such is this path of the Vitarags. Questioner: You said that people do up to five hundred pratikramans a day. So which is better, more pratikramans occurring or less? Dadashri: The more the better. This is nothing but warehouses of mistakes. Krupadudev Shrimad Rajchandra has said, ‘I am a vessel of infinite mistakes, oh compassionate One! If I cannot ‘see’ these mistakes, how will I attain liberation?’ How can one overcome these warehouses of mistakes when he cannot even see five mistakes? It is nothing but a warehouse full of mistakes. Therefore, if one does up to five hundred pratikraman daily, then his warehouse of mistakes will empty quicker. For some, fifty mistakes will come out and for others, a hundred mistakes will come out; but they have started to come out. Questioner: But as one rises higher in awareness (urdhavikaran), the mistakes will begin to decrease, will they not? Dadashri: There is no need for one to rise higher (urdhavikaran). A mistake will be spotted immediately if there is awareness. And once the mistake is spotted, one does pratikraman right then and there. He will do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan immediately, in the moment. A ‘shoot-on-sight’ pratikraman! Questioner: After doing so many pratikramans, there will come a time when they will decrease in number, will they not? How can they continue to increase? Dadashri: It takes a long time for them to go down because

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