Aptavani 02

SR No.: 007535
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 303
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 34 KB

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will improve and you will be able to go to moksha with such pratikramans.
Lord Mahavir has said, "If you are a big businessman (busy), then do pratikraman at night for all the atikraman done during the day." That is called 'raishi' pratikraman. And doing pratikraman in the day for atikraman done during the night is called devshi'.
This is the Akram path and therefore pratikraman need to be done after Self-realization. You have attained the knowledge of the Self, but the old stock of past karma will cause you to do atikraman and for that you have to do pratikraman. The Shuddhatma i.e. the real Self does not have to do the pratikraman; you have to make your mind, body and speech do it. The doer-ship of 'I am doing it is gone and as our real Self form we are pure; therefore the Self does not have to do the pratikraman. If the Shuddhatma does pratikraman it will become poisonous. Shuddhatma, does not do pratikraman, but makes the mind, body and speech complex do it. This path is the Akram path, in which the Self is attained first, and then the karmic debts have to be paid off. In Akram path first we stop the inner turmoil and then we pay off our debts, whereas in the Kramic path as one pays off his debts first, one comes into Gnan and attains inner peace.
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Yogeshwar Lord Krishna Questioner : What is swa-dharma? The Vaishnav religion tells us to remain in swa-dharma and not to go to pardharma.
Dadashri : Our people have not understood the word swa-dharma at all. They think swa-dharma is the Vaishnav religion and par-dharma is all other religions such as Shaivism, Jainism etc. Lord Krishna said. "Par-dharma bhayavaha," People understood this to mean, "There is danger in practicing any religion other than the Vaishnav religion. All the other religions too say that par-dharma means there is danger in other religions, but no one understands the true meaning of swadharma or par-dharma. Par-dharma means dharma of the non self, the body complex, prakruti, and swa-dharma is the dharma of the Self. Washing and bathing the body, making it fast etc., are all religions of the body, it is par-dharma. There is no swadharma in that. The Self is your natural state (swaroop). Lord Krishna had said, "The religion of the Self is swa-dharma and any other activities such as fasting or penance are activities of the non-self. There is nothing of the Self in them."
Swa-dharma can only be practiced when one understands and recognizes that one's Self within, is Krishna. A true Vaishnav is the one who recognizes the Lord Krishna within. Today there is no one who has become a true Vaishnav. Not even according to the definition, "Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye je piid parayii jane re - a true Vaishnav is the one who knows the suffering of others."
These Vaishnavs say, "We practice Lord Krishna's