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[16] Revenge of Enmity Is Unbearable
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the Gnan, so do not stir up the past. Not even fools will stir up the past, whereas You have attained the Gnan and the future is left to vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences). Therefore, remain in the present. You have faith in vyavasthit, don't you? Then nothing remains to be done for the future. And the past that you are stirring up' is to settle your past unsettled files with equanimity and, therefore, it is not considered as 'stirring up the
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Questioner: Yes, now that is correct.
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Him. Some even kidnapped Him.
Questioner: Yes, but none of that touched Him.
Dadashri: His applied awareness (upayog) was not in all that, was it? His upayog was not in his body at all. Let them do whatever they want to, to the body. Not only did he not have the ownership of that body, but he did not even have upayog (applied awareness) in the body.
If you hit this table and break it, it has reaction. You are responsible for it. In the same way, that is how separate the Lord was from his body.
Even if you do not want to remember something, if it comes into your memory it is a mistake that needs to be washed off with pratikraman.
Stirring Up the Past with a Purpose
Questioner: Yesterday in satsang, it was said that one is not to think of the past and to remain in the present. Now, I feel that I do not want to think of the past, but suddenly it comes before the mind and the chit. The past brings back a lot of stinging memories and it fills up every pore in my body. So I feel at a loss as to how I can forget the past.
Dadashri: It is like this. This that is taking place within you is for the purpose of settling enmity. You can see the past and so you can start doing pratikraman. But without stirring up the past, you will not see those unsettled accounts, will you? Do you understand? Only a rare person will have this situation like yours. This is not how it is with others (mahatmas) and that is why 'we' tell others to live in the present.'
Even people with an intelligent approach to life, who do not have Gnan, never stir up the past. Why is that? How can you resolve that which has no solution? The past means something that has no solution. Therefore, we say that you have attained
Dadashri: Some people unnecessarily stir up their past for no reason. In order to settle the past files, You have to stir up the files, because you want to get rid of the 'shop.' What do You have to do now? You have to sell off the old stock and not buy any new stock. But you have to maintain some discrimination. You cannot get rid of some stock, but if you have run out of sugar, then you have to buy some more; therefore, you have to exercise discrimination while getting rid of the shop.
Questioner: If we say not to stir up the past, then what is the need for doing pratikraman?
Dadashri: Those who do pratikraman have no problem with the past. With pratikraman, we are getting rid of atikraman and settling it. Not stirring the past means that if you had a quarrel with someone yesterday, you bury it in your mind and not stir it up again). But there is nothing wrong if you recall it to do prarikraman. But do not keep it on your mind and think of it as a burden. You should not do that. Stirring up the past means when one remembers something about the past, he starts crying about it. If a person's son died two days ago, he remembers him today and cries. Is that not called stirring up the past?
One has to do pratikraman, does he not? And prarikraman is for what occurred in the past. For the future, there is pratyakhyan. Let pratyakhyan occur with the intent, 'I
