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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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What is the meaning of shuddha vyavahar (pure worldly interaction) in the path of Akram? It is to remain in the five Agnas. Remain in them as much as You can and do pratikraman for the rest.
Shuddha Upayog The Self is nothing but knowledge-vision (gnan-darshan). To be in shuddha upayog means to be the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta). What is pure knowledge-vision (shuddha gnan-darshan)? That which is without attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) is shuddha gnan-darshan. The worldly gnandarshan has attachment-abhorrence in it. It is impure (ashuddha) *knowing-seeing. What is it?
Questioner: Ashuddha (impure).
Dadashri: It is with attachment-abhorrence... and that which is without attachment-abhorrence is considered pure (shuddha) Gnan. Any kind of pure awakened awareness (shuddha upayog) can be attained with pure Gnan. If not, then if you just sit and see everything by simply being in shuddha upayog (by being in the awareness as the Self); that is fine too. It will work even when you are walking on the street. If nothing else, then keep doing pratikraman while at home. This all has come together from the connection of so many past lives, has it not? So even if you spend half an hour a day to do pratikraman, so much of it (karmic baggage) will come out. Take the name of each person at home and keep doing his pratikraman. Each and every mistake of this and countless past lives will remain in the upayog (focused, awakened awareness) and will be cleared. You have many such things that need to be done - that is considered shuddha upayog. Why have all these people become your relatives? It is because of all the entanglements that have been woven with them in the past life. You can become free from them if you do pratikraman. It is one's choice whether he wants to be free or not. We have become free.
There is no one to bind the one who wants to be free.
Even Lord Mahavir was loved by many, but that did not bind Him. But if the Lord showed any attachment then he would have become bound.
So people ask me, 'What will happen to me if the other person hurts me?' Hey! The other person can do whatever he wants to. Why should you care? If people believe a man to be a woman, can you tell them not to believe so? Then if one were to file a complaint in the court, would you do the same? One can do as he pleases; one is independent; one can do whatever he wants to, can he not? Questioner: Yes, he can.
(486) Dadashri: Why should we be concerned with that? You take care of your own self. So you have to put many such things in upayog (focused, awakened awareness). There is upayog even when you are just seeing. Your work does not end when you become a Shuddhatma. Who is Shuddhatma? If someone insults you and it affects you, then you are not a Shuddhatma. You should be able to see the Shuddhatma of the person insulting you at that time. When he insults you, it is the unfolding of your own karma (udayakarma). It is an instrument that is playing; it is a taped record that is playing, nevertheless the unfolding of karma is your own, is it not? To see the Self as being pure (shuddha) is called shuddha upayog. To 'see' every living being as shuddha is called shuddha upayog. Knowledge of Separation through Akram
Questioner: The superiority of this Akram Vignan is that the separation between the Self and the non-Self has occurred through a bheda-vignani - a scientist who separates. That is the divinity of Akram, whereas in the Kramic path, the mixture of the Self and the non-Self continues right until the end (moksha).
