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cannot get moksha on credit.
One has to do pratikraman and pratyakhyan for any atikraman done through the mind, body and speech. When one does alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, using our face as the medium of contemplation (niddidhyasan), he will erase all mistakes in such a way that he will not repeat that atikraman. It is all erased because of our presence.
Atikraman is the worst himsa (violence) for which pratikraman is required. The external gross himsa may or may not have any consequences but it is the inner intent that dictates the consequences of the actions. The inner intent has direct bearing upon how the karma is bound, and hence this violence (himsa) has to be washed for sure. Atikraman is violence. How can people do pratikraman when they do not even understand what himsa is? What kind of pratikraman will they do? If gross or overt acts of himsa were considered himsa, then Emperor Bharat would have never attained moksha. How many people did he kill during the battles? Gross himsa is not an obstacle for liberation. It is the subtle himsa (bhaav himsa i.e. the inner intent) that obstructs moksha.
I have given the mahatmas something very special in their hands. People will have to accept that despite their actions of fighting physically on the outside their inner right vision (samkit) never leaves. There is a distinct and separate line of demarcation between the streams of the Self and the non-self.
As for you (Dadashri addressing the seeker who has not attained Self-realization, there is no separation. Without alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, the two streams cannot remain separate. There is constant alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan in the mahatmas. What is this like? As their external activities are going on, the internal activity of alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan are also going on simultaneously This should be going on constantly. Do you do alochana,
pratikraman and pratyakhyan?
Questioner : Yes. I do pratikraman yearly (samvatsari).
Dadashri : Let me explain how you should do your pratikraman. Do you have a guru?
Questioner : No I do not.
Dadashri : If one happens to quarrel, it is because of his unfolding karma and the tendency of his prakruti (the relative self), but when this happens, he needs to recall his guru, recall the Soul within the person he has hurt and do pratikraman immediately. Atikraman is an act of aggression. If one does atikraman with his boss, there too he can erase everything if he does alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, using his guru as the witness. When he does this, instead of creating a tight solid knot of karma through the atikraman, it becomes loose and it will disintegrate upon the slightest touch in his next life. One needs a guru, does he not? He needs someone to make his confessions to, does he not? The only way to become free is through pratikraman and pratyakhyan, there is no other way. Atikraman and aakraman (excess atikraman) causes bondage. The subtraction (pratikraman) must equal the addition (atikraman) in order to zero out everything. Pratikraman is best done the moment the atikraman occurs. A true Jain is constantly living by alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan. The one who does over five hundred or so pratikramans a day is a true a Jain.
One can reduce the 'stickiness' or the intensity of the knots of attachment and abhorrence through constant pratikraman. If the person you are dealing with is being awkward, the fault lies with you. You have not erased your accounts with him and if you have, then your effort was not proper. Whenever you have free time, you should keep cleansing your sticky karmic accounts you have pending with others. You will not have too many, there may be five or ten such sticky files. You have to do pratikraman for them. You have to keep washing away the
