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Pratikraman
should be done so that that particular fault is erased.
Questioner: What do they mean when they say to censure
the self? What is that?
Dadashri: That means to accept your mistake, ask for
forgiveness, to repent; all that is censuring. Now the Self is not
to be censured. Pratishthit atma (the relative self) has to be
censured.
Pratikraman Destroys Wandering of Life after
Life
Without pratikraman, there is no path to liberation. The
path where there is no pratikraman is a wrong path. If the Jains
were to do real pratikraman, their tubers of inner anger, pride,
deceit, greed (kashays) would wither away and become lost,
and would be gone in their next life. Who do ‘we’ call ‘a Jain’?
It is the one who does pratikraman the moment anger-pride-
deceit-greed occurs; it is the one who practices the Lord’s Agna
(special directive). Tirthankars have left this pratikraman for
people to follow because humans will not refrain from making
mistakes. The celestials make mistakes, the humans make
mistakes. The entire chaturgati (the four worlds of existence
within which the soul migrates) makes mistakes. They do not
refrain from making mistakes. What is the solution for destroying
those mistakes? The answer is ‘alochana, pratikraman and
pratyakhyan.’
What is the basis of the world’s existence? Fault of
transgression (atikraman dosh) is the cause of its existence.
Those who do pratikraman and pratyakhyan daily are
considered sadhus (those who live and strive for only the state
of the Self), upadhyayas (those who have attained Self-realization
and help others attain it) and acharyas (Self-realized masters).
The world is not likely to let anyone go to moksha. It will hook
you and pull you back in it, in every way that it can. And that