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absolutely free (vimukta) from that? Only the Gnani Purush can show you the way, through pratikraman.
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The Gnan Within You Cautions You
Questioner: Sometimes, I feel that a mistake is occurring but the other person may not even be aware of it; can that be possible?
Dadashri: Yes, I see everyone's mistakes and yet they have no idea of their mistakes.
Questioner: Not like that. I feel that I have erred towards you but you do not even feel that I have done anything wrong. So then what happens to the repenting that I do?
Dadashri: Yes, you become free when you repent when you have done something wrong. What is it to you whether the other person is aware or not?
Questioner: I thought, 'Did I do something wrong?"
Dadashri: Yes, what can you do if his 'post office' is closed? Your post office is open, is it not? If you have stamped it the wrong way, then you have to correct it and stamp it the right way.
Questioner: Or is it the intellect (buddhi) that looks for mistakes and continues to interfere every now and then?
Dadashri: What interference does it do?
Questioner: It tells me, 'You have erred; you should not have done that.'
Dadashri: Hmm! Then it is saying the right thing, is it not? But where will you find someone to alert you this way?
Questioner: But, Dada, perhaps that mistake may not have occurred, even then.
Dadashri: No, it is not that the mistake may not have
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occurred; it will say that only if the mistake has occurred. It is cautioning you from within. Who in this world will caution you? No one else will come to caution you. The Gnan that has been placed within you is cautioning you. It will constantly caution you!
The One Whose Abhorrence is Gone is A God
Pratikraman is occurring naturally and spontaneously from within. People ask if this is true. I tell them that I have placed a special 'machine' inside them which starts the process. Everything is ready as long as you are earnest about it.
Questioner: That is true, Dada. Pratikraman is occurring naturally. Furthermore, this science is such that there is no more abhorrence (dwesh).
Dadashri: Yes, abhorrence will not occur.
Questioner: That is a wonder, Dada!
Dadashri: That is what you call 'Khuda' (Muslim word for God; divine). The one who does not have any abhorrence is called 'Khuda.'
Never Say the Negative
Questioner: This person is saying, 'Someone like me cannot do pratikraman - what is that?
Dadashri: He does not realize that it is, indeed, occurring within him, but when he says that he cannot do it, the machinery and the process come to a halt. Whatever your 'prayers,' so will be your worship. They will continue to take place from within; they will start after a while.
Questioner: I do not like it when I hurt someone, but that is as far as it goes. It does not go any further from that. Pratikraman does not occur. (142) Dadashri: The 'machinery' within us works according to
