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[12] Defeating Addictions with Gnan
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excessive and those are the files. There is no problem with those you do not remember.
There is also a problem if someone serves you too much food and forces it on you. What do you do if someone serves you too much?
Questioner: We have to tell them no, otherwise we will suffer after eating all that.
Dadashri: You have to put your hands together and plead with them; do whatever it takes. This is how everything is in the world. It is difficult to achieve normality.
Pratikraman for Breaking the Discipline
You should make a list of all that did not happen according to your goal and then do pratikraman for that just before bedtime. That is more than enough.
Questioner: Dada, even now, sometimes I end up eating a little more than I should. But I do pratikraman for it.
Dadashri: There is no problem with that.
Questioner: This is how I do pratikraman: 'Dear Dada Bhagwan! I ask for forgiveness for breaking the discipline I have taken with You, Dada.' Is it acceptable to do it this way?
Dadashri: So You are hanging on to the discipline (niyam) and the body (pudgal) is breaking the discipline. It is sure that because you are doing the satsang, You are hanging on to the vow. You want to abide by the Agna.
Questioner: Yes. Drank Tea after Doing Pratyakhyan
Questioner: I am addicted to the bad habit of smoking. What should I do?
Dadashri: Maintain from within that smoking is wrong; it is harmful. Furthermore, when someone points out your mistake, never defend or protect the act of smoking in any manner. If you do, it will only serve to reinforce and protect your addiction. Admit that you have a weakness and that it is a bad habit. Only then will a time come when you will be able to break yourself away from this addiction. If you do not, then this addiction will stay with you. Are you trying to let go of it?
Questioner: I am trying, but without success. (212)
Dadashri: No, you should not make any attempts. What you should do is not protect your addiction. If someone tells you, 'Why don't you stop smoking?' and you respond by, 'No, there is no need to stop smoking,' then that is the protection of your addiction. In the presence of criticism, when your addiction has a chance of dissolving, you defend it by saying, "No, there is nothing wrong with smoking.' So what happens then? It will not go away. So always maintain the belief that it is wrong to smoke, then one day it will go away.
Questioner: What if I simply keep seeing the discharge that is occurring and not do pratikraman for it? Will that then increase or decrease?
Dadashri: It will not increase. In not doing pratikraman, you will see those same parmanus again in your next life.
Questioner: But what if we do not increase anything new and simply keep 'seeing the discharge?
Dadashri: There is no need to do pratikraman at all. One hundred percent there is no need for it! The reason I have put forth pratikraman is that otherwise you will not be free of your opinions. The moment you do pratikraman, you are opposing that opinion. That is not your opinion anymore; otherwise, it will remain pending. There is no need for pratikraman in this science. It is solely for this reason you have
