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[15] On The Path of Cause Ahimsa
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[16] Revenge of Enmity is Unbearable
even to the slightest extent, under any circumstance."
'We will make you do pratikraman which will wash off everything. This was a bird which you could see, but there are so many living things that you cannot see which also get crushed. Make 'Chandubhai' do pratikraman for that.
Questioner: In my mind, a thought had come that according to vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences), that was the kind of karmic account (hisaab) that pigeon had, is that correct?
Dadashri: Of course, that was the account. It was its hisaab and you were the nimit (evidentiary doer, apparent doer). But our mahatmas do not become such nimits. While driving, they do not have any inner intent (bhaav) that they want to kill anything
Whereas, if someone else is in a hurry and happens to run over some animal or bird, he will say, 'What could I do?'
Questioner: Now, how can the thoughts in the mind be changed?
Dadashri: He does not have to do anything. You have to make 'Chandubhai' do pratikraman repeatedly.
But it has become clear, hasn't it?
Questioner: Yes, it has. Is it enough to just say the prayer you mentioned earlier that, 'Let no living being be hurt through the medium of the speech, thoughts, and acts,' in the morning?
Dadashri: It should be repeated five times a day, with the same intensity of applied awareness (upayog) as you would have when counting one hundred dollar bills. While counting money, there is one pointed state of the antahkaran (internal functioning mechanism in every human being composed of mind, intellect, chit and ego) and the chit. That is how it should be when reciting this intent.
Pratikraman for Enmity Questioner: A man I know told me that his brother was looking to beat him up. At that time, I realized and thought to myself, "Why should I create enmity (veyr) with him? (282)
Dadashri: Yes, he will bind enmity. If he knows that you are having enmity towards him, then he will do the same with you and then sting you and kill you in your next life.
Questioner: He would not know who has enmity towards him, would he?
Dadashri: So he is not binding any enmity in this, you are doing that, unilaterally. It is considered enmity when it is from both the parties. And enmity means that he will avenge one day. Whereas this one, you create it on your own from within. What will you do now?
Questioner: After I had this thought, so much rigmarole came out from just that one thought.
Dadashri: But you just had a thought, there were no other wishes, were there? Did you do pratikraman after that?
Questioner: I am not able to do pratikraman.
Dadashri: You have to do that. How can you not do it? How is that acceptable?
Questioner: Is all the rigmarole that occurred, not a pratikraman?
