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you just sit there with your hands folded. Granted it is not under your control when tea spills on your clothes, but should you not wash it out right away? Similarly, should you not wash out stains of atikraman right away also?
'We have done pratikraman for many lives. That is why these clothes (non-self) have become clean and I am helping you attain the same.
There are two kinds of alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan. One is the kind done by worldly people, sadhus, ascetics and alike. This pratikraman helps cut down on the 'stickiness' of the karmic tubers. However, the reward is much greater if pratikraman is done instantly, the moment atikraman occurs. The latter is the kind of pratikraman done by our mahatmas; they are done while being the Self
Wonder of Gautam Swami's pratikraman!
Do you think we had such pratikramans when the Lord was walking around on this earth? What can we even say about those times? A lay devotee of the Lord by the name of Anand Shravak attained avadhi gnan (knowledge beyond the senses). When Gautam Swami went to him, Anand Shravak told him, "I have attained avadhi gnan." Gautam Swami did not believe him, so he told the shravak, "This claim of yours is wrong so please do pratikraman for it." Anand Shravak asked, "Should I do pratikraman for telling the truth or telling a lie?" Gautam Swami replied, "Pratikraman has to be done for telling lies. You do not need to do pratikraman for telling the truth. "So Anand Shravak told him, "If there is no need to do pratikraman for the truth, then I do not have the right to do pratikraman. " Gautam Swami went to Lord Mahavir and asked, “Dear Lord, does Anand Shravak not have a right to do pratikraman?" The Lord said, "Gautam, Anand is right. He has attained avadhi gnan, so you go and do pratikraman of Anand Shravak. "Gautam Swami ran to Anand Shravak and did pratikraman.
Pratikraman has to be done for all inappropriate worldly interaction.
Questioner : Dada, we are Jains and therefore we know about samayik (introspective meditation) and pratikraman, but we are not able to do them, why is that?
Dadashri : In this world, everything that can be followed or carried out is knowledge (gnan) and that which cannot be followed or carried out is ignorance (agnan). When you say, "We understand samayik but we are not able to do it," to this the Lord says, "You are ridiculing me." If a bottle of poison is sitting next to another bottle but you do not have knowledge of this, you are likely to take the bottle of poison. But here you have the knowledge and still you are not doing it. That is an excuse, you are claiming ignorance as knowledge. It is ignorance that you call knowledge. No one would jump into a well on purpose. The result of knowing is to stop (virati). If a child asks you, "What is poison?" You tell him, "A person can die if he drinks it." Then the child will ask, "What is dying?" So you explain to him, "That is what happened to the uncle next door; he died after drinking poison." Then the child will understand. He will know that he cannot touch it because it is poisonous. Then he will put a stop to touching the poison. The fruit of knowing is to stop. Virati means to refrain.
Solutions, only through instant pratikraman
One lady says, "When we sit down to do our pratikraman, people push and shove from the back; do you have the same problems here?" 'We' told her, "No that does not happen here. Here they do real pratikraman; the kind Lord Mahavir has said to do. "Elsewhere they recite their pratikramans in the Magadhi language (language of ancient Jain scriptures), let me tell you what that is like. If a French man is sitting here and I keep rambling on in Gujarati, he may laugh with us but would he understand a word of what I say? Lord Mahavir did use the
