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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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(parmanus) do not become pure, so what occurs with pratikraman?
(492) Dadashri: The parmanus only become pure through 'seeing them. The effect of the hurt caused will remain, and so when you do pratikraman, it will be washed away. As much as possible, one should not be the cause (nimit) of that hurt.
Questioner: Can it be said that it becomes pure with pratikraman?
Dadashri: You may in general gross terms. Pratikraman Has Been Inserted in Akram
Vignan Questioner: One life is to be spent by constantly seeing.' Is the seeing to be done while doing pratikraman?
Dadashri: You should be constantly aware that I am not doing anything at all.' If this remains continuously, then there is no need for you to do pratikraman. 'We' have the constant, continuous awareness. 'We' tell you what 'we" experience. After attaining the Gnan, 'we' constantly experience that.
Nevertheless, pratikraman is not at all necessary in this Gnan. This Gnan is the ultimate kind where pratikraman does not exist at all. But here, 'we' graduate even the one who is at the level of the fourth grade. So then what happens to all those skipped middle grades? So 'we' have added prarikraman and taken on the responsibility. Otherwise, there is no pratikraman in this Gnan; nevertheless, it has been put in the middle at our own liability.
Except for the Shuddhatma, everything else is garbage. In that, one is kraman and the other is arikraman. Everything other than the Shuddhatma are mistakes and pratikraman has to be done for them.
Just Look at the Beauty of the Akram
Vignan Questioner: We are satisfied having heard the clarification from You, personally.
Dadashri: So in all this, You are separate for sure.
Pratikraman occurs simultaneously. So then tell me who is going to bother you?
Questioner: With this body, pratikraman continues every moment, day and night. Due to this, before the pratikraman even starts, atikraman simply vanishes.
Dadashri: This is a science that works instantly. This is the Akram science. It is a whole siddhant (established, incontrovertible principle which attains the ultimate) that will produce results. Just as when you remove one layer of an onion, all the qualities of the onion express (water in the eyes); in the same manner if you were to cut a slice of this Gnan, it will give you nothing but the reward of the siddhant of Gnan itself. In the same token if you were to take a slice of ignorance (agnan), you will get the fruit of ignorance. Even just a single slice will show the attributes, will it not?
This is Akram Vignan. "Vignan' means that it is a science and, therefore, it gives immediate results. Where there is no need to do anything, it is called vignan, and wherever one has to do something, that is called gnan (relative knowledge).
Would a thinking person not wonder how, without doing anything, all this is? That is the wonder of Akram Vignan.
