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destroy demerit karma-sins (paap) of infinite past lives. What kind of pratikraman is this? All enmity (veyr) comes to an end. The highest enmity is bound with fellow students on the same path (sahadhyayi; fellow spiritual colleagues). Here, for mahatmas, it is the spiritual path and, therefore, the highest enmity is bound with a fellow mahatma. There is no enmity with the rest of the world at any given day, whereas the sahadhyayi is on your mind the whole day.
Questioner: Was enmity bound with fellow students even in Satyug (time cycle of unity in mind, speech and body actions)?
Dadashri: No, enmity was not bound at that time. People's understanding was very elevated then. Their love was very sticky.
Questioner: What is the reason for enmity towards fellow students on the same path of study (liberation)?
Dadashri: Wrong understanding. There was no such thing during the Satyug. A thief was a thief; a cunning person was cunning and a noble person was noble. The world has never been without thieves, but there are fewer thieves in Satyug.
All those who are close to us now, and those in our proximity, have been with us in past lives and are together with us even now. Many of them may be considered our spiritual colleagues. It is with these very people that we have bound vengeance over past lives. If both the sides did pratikraman, their accounts would clear very quickly. Do not forget anyone. Vengeance is bound more strongly especially with spiritual colleagues (sahadhyayi), and if you do face-to-face pratikraman with them, your mistakes will be washed away. This is the kind of pratikraman we did in Aurangabad. Such pratikraman has never been done before, anywhere else in the world. There is No Place to Cry Like the Feet of
the Gnani Purush Questioner: Everyone, including all the prominent famous
people, were crying, Dada.
Dadashri: Yes. What occurred in Aurangabad was amazing. They all wept intensely. Even just one such pratikraman done throughout an entire lifetime would be enough.
Questioner: Where else can a prominent person find the place to cry? This (with the Gnani) is a very rare place.
Dadashri: You are right, they cried a lot.
Questioner: That was the first time I witnessed such famous people cry so openly.
Dadashri: They cried openly and fell at the feet of their wives. You must have been there; did you see all that?
Questioner: Yes, I have never seen anything quite like it before.
Dadashri: It could never be anywhere else. Nowhere else is there such an Akram Vignan, such pratikraman. There's nothing like this!
Questioner: And nowhere else is there such a 'Dada'! Dadashri: Yes, nowhere else is there such a 'Dada'! The Greatest Wonder of the World in
Aurangabad Once a year, 'we' make everyone do pratikraman in a special group in Aurangabad; is that not a wonder? This pratikraman of ours is the greatest wonder in the world.
Tremendous energy grows within with this. It is nothing but an energy factory. During that time, 'we' do such a vidhi that tremendous energies arise within everyone. Otherwise, is this attorney some ordinary man? He will tell you that he would rather die than bow down to anyone. But once, such energy did arise within him when he did pratikraman in Aurangabad. At
