Absolutely revered Dada Bhagwan [Dadashri] always used to say that this jatra is the discharge of the karma ‘we’ have bound in the last life. The purpose of it is to wash off the viradhana (to go against another living being) ‘we’ have done knowingly or unknowingly in the past. ‘We’ do not organize a jatra with doership. Actually, the purpose of a jatra is for the sake of the Self and for the sake of bhakti (the Lord’s worship that brings one closer to the Self). It is indeed in a jatra that mahatmas get the opportunity to exhaust their prakruti (non-Self complex) by Seeing it and break their tubers. Dadashri always used to say that you should keep such awareness that no one gets hurt wherever you go on a jatra and you should follow the rules of that place, then that is a true jatra. The main purpose is that day and night they become familiar with the Gnani Purush, they get to observe His worldly interactions, His internal state, and His natural and spontaneous state.
