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the public one's crime, are prescribed. If anyone repents and openly admits his minor offences, the the sin is washed away. In doing Prayaschitta the offender actually suffers, he punishes himself by long fasting and other ordeals as described above. Action and reaction are equal and opposite. Complete fasting on Ekadasi and Pradosh days destroys many sins. Every one of you should practise this. Bathing in the Ganges, Japa and ordinary pilgrimage constitute ordinary Prayaschitta for the destruction of small sins
A full-blown Jnani is above Vidhi and Nishedha. He can do anything he likes. He can kill thousands of Brahmins and millions of people. The Gita says: "He who is free from the egoistic notion, whose reason is not affected, though he slays these people, he slayeth not, nor is he bound." Ch. XVIII-17. This only glorifies the exalted state of the Jnani He cannot do a single wrong action. He has disciplined himself in the beginning. He has practised Shama and Dama for a long time. Whatever he does will be in strict accordance with the injunctions of the scriptures. A Jnani has no idea of being an actor. He has not Kartru Bhav He identifies himself with Brahman He has established himself in his own Swaroop
Karma may have been acquired in many previous births. Actions cause good and bad results. Some actions might have begun to bear fruits and others not Therefore it is impracticable to consume by en
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