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[11] Purusharth Against Bad Qualities of Prakruti
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[12] Defeating Addictions with Gnan
karma. That is very good. It is good to be shrewd in this matter. In the worldly life, in the absence of Self-realization, shrewd people are hurting themselves, whereas here if a person is shrewd then it is good.
Destroy Effect with Effect Questioner: The pratikraman that we do, we do only because of our karma, right? Pratikraman that we do is not in our control. Is doing pratikraman not an effect of our past karma?
Dadashri: Pratikraman is verily an effect. But we have to destroy effect with effect and clear it, wash it off immediately. You should say, 'Chandulal, wash it off. Why did you do that? There is no problem with karmas that do not hurt anyone. You can eat everything and enjoy yourself. Even eat karela (bitter gourds)! Put some jaggery (raw, unrefined sugar) in it, but eat them, because the body also needs bitter juices; so eat karela even if you have to put jaggery in them.
Pratikraman is Purusharth
No one should be hurt in the slightest. There is no end to the hurt one inflicts on others unknowingly. Work with others without hurting them. If you have to delegate work to them, do so without hurting them. That is called kraman (neutral actions; actions that do not hurt anyone). But when does anything become arikraman? Say you are in a hurry and one of your workers has gone for his tea break, so when he returns you start shouting at him, 'Where did you go? You are useless, what took you so long,' etc; that is atikraman. That atikraman occurs naturally, even when you have no desire for it to occur.
It is natural for atikraman to occur, but to do pratikraman is spiritual effort (purusharth). It erases your wrongdoings through thoughts, speech and acts. Pratikraman removes any stain caused by atikraman.
Settle Them with Equanimity If the soup is too spicy, you start complaining, 'You ruined the soup,' etc., then You realize that you made a mistake in behaving the way you did. You did not deal with that 'file' with equanimity. What does settling the file with equanimity mean? Take less of that soup and do whatever you have to in order to bring about a resolution. Otherwise, you will have to do prarikraman. Are you able to see your mistakes right away?
(210) Questioner: I can see them right away. Even Physical Diseases Go Away with
Pratikraman Dadashri: Our Gnan tells us to do pratikraman. Even eating too little is arikraman, because it will make you hungry at an odd time. Eating too much is also atikraman. Therefore, remain within normality.
Whatever physical diseases one has, all of them have been caused by arikraman. They will all go away with pratikraman.
Questioner: How would one do pratikraman?
Dadashri: You have to find the nature of the disease. You have to find with which nimit the disease arises. You have to search deep into your relationships with each of those. Whichever relationships come to mind, those very relationships were
