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karma, other people are hurt by my karma.
Dadashri: But 'who' is this I'? Is it Chandubhai or the Shuddhatma?
Questioner: 'Chandubhai.' Dadashri: You are Shuddhatma, are you not? Questioner: Yes.
Questioner: If You set 'Chandubhai' free in that manner, then he is likely to do anything on a whim!
Dadashri: No. That is why I have given you vyavasthit. You cannot change anything at all in this current life. The life in which I am giving you vyavasthit, that vyavasthit cannot be changed at all. This is why I am setting You free. I can see all this in my Gnan, so that is why I do not need to reprimand you for any of your karma effects. I do not question you. 'Why did you do that?' This is not meant for another life, but for this life; *You are not at all responsible!' I have gone to that extent!
This is the Magnificence of Akram Vignan
Dadashri: Then 'Chandubhai' is the doer. What does that have to do with You? 'Chandubhai' is separate and You are separate.
Questioner: 'Chandubhai' becomes a doer and he becomes tanmayakar (become the body and the mind). That is when I know that the other person is hurt.
Dadashri: Then You have to tell 'Chandubhai', 'Ask for forgiveness. Why did you hurt him?' But You do not have to ask for forgiveness. The one who does atikraman has to do pratikraman. If 'Chandubhai' does the atikraman, then You have to make him do pratikraman.
Questioner: If I have a sari business and my competitors raise their prices by five rupees, and I do the same, is that wrong business practice? Does that affect me or not?
Dadashri: But who is the 'doer there?
This is a science. It gives instant freedom. Once you understand this science, you will find incontrovertible clarification (tado): you will continue to find clarification wherever you want. Where you cannot find a clarification, there is not a science. You should be able to find the solution if you are looking for one. There should never be any contradictions. That is called an established, incontrovertible principle that delivers the ultimate (siddhant). Hundreds of years can pass but it can never have any contradictions; that is defined as a siddhant. This Akram Vignan rises above all intellects (buddhi). Great minds of Bombay have come, but it did not submit to their buddhi because this Gnan transcends buddhi. Intellect is limited, whereas there is no limit to Gnan.
Should One Charge Interest or Not?
Questioner: Can one charge interest on money he loans to others?
Dadashri: If 'Chandulal' wants to charge interest, let him do so, but tell him he will have to do pratikraman for it.
Questioner: Why should pratikraman be done? Is charging interest atikraman?
Questioner: 'Chandubhai,' the sari seller.
Dadashri: 'You are a Shuddhatma (the Self), and so You are not responsible for what 'Chandubhai' says or does.
And by any other means, if you feel someone has been hurt, then tell 'Chandubhai', 'You have done atikraman, so do pratikraman.' But I have not left behind any responsibility for You at all. I have removed Your responsibility and liability.
