Dadavani Gujarati Magazine - August 2007

In this issue

The Solution That Brings Total Freedom From Mistakes : Pratikraman (Gujarati)
What should be the goal of this human life, which is so very rarely attained? No matter what the sansaric worldly goal may be but the spiritual goal must be to attain moksha liberation by becoming free from all mistakes. By nurturing the vision that sees all beings as flawless one must not miss the purusharth spiritual effort of becoming free from mistakes. In daily vyavahar worldly life interactions, one hurts the family members, elderly people, relatives, friends, and dependents knowingly or unknowingly through the thoughts, speech and actions. Atikraman aggression through thoughts, speech and acts—happens in form of angerpride-deceit-greed-attachment-abhorrence, and this in turn perpetuates the endless cycle of kashays anger-pride-deceit-greed and miseries. What is the solution to become free from atikraman and attain happiness, peace and ultimate salvation? Akram Vignani Gnani Purush Dadashri lays bare the secret that it is natural for a human being to commit a mistake but the only way to become free from them is pratikraman—recall of mistake, apology coupled with remorse and decision never to repeat the mistake. Pratikraman means to revert from one’s own mistakes through understanding.