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stickiness. You will have to find out with which persons you have heavy karmic accounts. You will be able to tell right away the moment a new account starts with these individuals; however you will have to seek out the old ones. People closest to you will be your stickiest files. The account that unfolds is most often that which is sticky.
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When there is direct atikraman towards any living being. do pratikraman immediately. If you are serving food and you don't serve enough and you hurt someone's feeling that is indirect atikraman. You have to erase that too, by doing pratikraman. The potato curry is not chetan (it does not have life), but the one bringing it does, and therefore it touches another living being. If you happen to serve potatoes to a person who abstains from eating them, he will be offended but you may not be aware that you have hurt him by serving him potatoes, so you have to do pratikraman for not maintaining awareness (loss of upayog).
Questioner: What is physical and mental fatigue (kantado)? Is it spiritual laziness (pramaad)?
Dadashri : No. kantado is not spiritual laziness; it is a dislike or a lack of interest. You have to do pratikraman for being apathetic towards things that are necessary to do.
Questioner: Dada why do we not understand and recognize many of our faults?
Dadashri : Greed and illusion of attachment (maya) will not allow you to recognize them, but you will immediately recognize the faults if pride and anger are involved. Others too will show you your faults.
Doing darshan of the Gnani Purush breaks the veil of kapat (deceit) and everything begins to become clearer.
As alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan occurs, the
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karmic baggage will begin to lessen. If you do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan when sexual thoughts arise, they will not arise. It is due to the baggage you have brought from your past life that the thoughts arise. If you do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, the baggage will empty completely. That baggage has no choice but to empty eventually.
Questioner: Dada, I have a lot of moha (attachment) towards material things. I like buying things for my house; I like buying saris, etc. How should I do pratikraman for all that?
Dadashri : All that falls is nokarma (neutral discharging karmas). They are yours if you are Chandulal but not otherwise. You have to do pratikraman when that moha causes you infatuation (murchha) and you become infatuated. This too is your karmic baggage; hence you have to do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan for everything that comes out of your karmic baggage. However, You should not be the one doing pratikraman, You have to make 'Chandulal' do the pratikraman. The one who does atikraman has to do pratikraman; the pure Soul does not do anything, so why should You do pratikraman?
As the knowing-seeing of Atma decreases, so does the energy (shouriya) of the soul, but as the knowing-seeing of Atma increases, the energies also increases.
One has attained the fourth gunasthanak (spiritual level) when he starts pratikraman.
Do pratikraman for whatever atikraman and aakraman (attacking nature) you have done. Good conduct or bad conduct is not under anyone's control; it is under the control of some other power. However, you have to do pratikraman for all atikraman and aakraman that occurs during bad conduct.
Aakraman and Atikraman
Questioner: What is the difference between aakraman
