Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
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Pratikraman
The master key that resolves all conflicts
The Power Of Pratikraman
Pralikram has tremendous power. Pratikraman has such an impact that if you do pratikramon towards someone whether person is present or not, for one hour, it will bring about profound changes within that person Pratikraman is the greatest weapon for peace and bliss. All animosity is naturally broken your profikraman does not require his endorsement.
As long as there is a tendency to look at Taults in others, there will be no peace of mind. When you do pratikraman all the faults will be erased.
Dadashri
Dada Bhagwan

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Freedom Through Apology & Repentace
Pratikraman
- Dada Bhagwan
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NOTE ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION
Ambalal M. Patel, Gnani Purush, also commonly known as Dadashri or Dada, always used to say that it is not possible to exactly translate his satsang about the Science of Self-Realization and the art of worldly interaction into English. Some of the depth of meaning would be lost. He stressed the importance of learning Gujarati to precisely understand all his teachings.
Dadashri did however grant his blessings to convey his teachings to the world through translations in English and other languages.
This is a humble attempt to present to the world the essence of the teachings of Dadashri, the Gnani Purush. A lot of care has been taken to preserve the tone and message of the satsang. This is not a literal translation of his words. Many people have worked diligently for this work and we thank them all.
This is an elementary introduction to the vast treasure of his teachings. Please note that any errors encountered in the translation are entirely those of the translators.
Books on Atmagnan and Daily living by Dadashri (1) Who Am I (English) : "Who am I" is a burning question since the beginning of our being in the universe. Answer to it is here...
(2) Ultimate Knowledge: (English) Experience of a 16 year youth about Atma Gnan.
(3) Generation Gap (Ma-Baap Chockra no Vyavhar) : How to overcome the generation gap in the west? How to raise children? What are Parents & childs duties.
(4) The Essence of all Religion: The essence of all religions in Nine Sentences with Scientific understanding.
(5) Adjust Everywhere: A simple key to solve day to day problems in life.
(6) Worries: The Gnani Purush Dadashri dissects the nature of worry and shows the way to be free from worry forever. Without this understanding it is very difficult to resolve the problem of worry at its root.
(7) Avoid Clashes: Just these two words, followed to the hilt will liberate you. You do not need to study any scriptures. This is the guarantee of the Gnani Purush Dadashri.
(8) The Fault of the sufferer: We are bound by our mistakes. The world has not bound us. Once these mistakes are eliminated, we are free.
(9) Whatever has happened is justice: When you understand "whatever happens is justice" you will solve all your worldly problems. There is no injustice in this world even for a moment. Justice will prevail.
(10) The Flawless Vision: There is no one at fault in this world. Dadashri gives the vision to see the world as flawless. In any suffering you experience it is your own fault.
(11) Freedom Through Apology & Repentace (Pratikraman): Pratikraman has such an impact that if you do pratikraman towards someone whether person is present or not, for one hour, it will bring about profound changes within that person. Pratikraman is the greatest weapon for peace and bliss.
(12) The Science of Karma: The intention of giving happiness to others binds good karma and the intention of hurting others, will bind bad karmas. It is only through inner intent and not through action that karmas are bound. The external acts are all effects.

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Introduction to The Gnani
On a June evening in 1958 at around six o'clock, Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, a family man, a contractor by profession, was sitting on a bench on the busy platform number three of Surat's train station. Surat is a city in south Gujarat, a western state in India. What happened within the next forty-eight minutes was phenomenal. Spontaneous Self-Realization occurred within Ambalal M. Patel. During this event his ego completely melted and from that moment onwards he became completely detached from all Ambalal's thoughts, speech and acts. He became the Lord's living instrument for the salvation of mankind, through the path of knowledge. He called this Lord, Dada Bhagwan. To everyone he met, he would say, "This Lord, Dada Bhagwan is fully manifest within me. He also resides within all living beings. The difference is that within me He is completely expressed and in you, he is yet to manifest."
Who are we? What is God? Who runs this world? What is karma? What is liberation? Etc. All the world's spiritual questions were answered during this event. Thus nature offered absolute vision to the world through the medium of Shree Ambalal Muljibhai Patel.
should not be any commerce in religion, and in all commerce there must be religion. He also never took money from anyone for his own use. He used the profits from his business to take his devotees for pilgrimages to various parts of India.
His words became the foundation for the new, direct and step-less path to Self-Realization called Akram Vignan. Through his divine original scientific experiment (The Gnan Vidhi), he imparted this knowledge to others within two hours. Thousands have received his grace through this process and thousands continue to do so even now. "Akram' means without steps, an elevator path or a short cut, whereas 'Kram' means an orderly step-bystep spiritual path. Akram is now recognized as a direct shortcut to the bliss of the Self.
Who is Dada Bhagwan ? When he explained to others who 'Dada Bhagwan' is, he would say:
"What you see here is not 'Dada Bhagwan.' What you see is 'A.M.Patel.'I am a Gnani Purush and He that is manifest within me, is 'Dada Bhagwan'. He is the Lord within. He is within you and everyone else. He has not yet manifest within you, whereas within me he is fully manifest. I myself am not a Bhagwan. I too bow down to Dada Bhagwan within me." Current link for attaining the knowledge of
Self-Realization (Atma Gnan) "7 am personally going to impart siddhis (special spiritual powers) to a few people. After I leave, will there not be a need for them? People of future generations will need this path, will they not?"
- Dadashri
Ambalal was born in Tarasali, a suburb of the city of Baroda and raised in Bhadran, Gujarat. His wife's name was Hiraba. Although he was a contractor by profession, his life at home and his interaction with everyone around him was exemplary even prior to his Self-Realization. After becoming Self-Realized and attaining the state of a Gnani, (The Awakened One, Jnani in Hindi), his body became a 'public charitable trust.'
Throughout his whole life he lived by the principle that there

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Contents
Param Pujya Dadashri used to go from town to town and country to country, to give satsang and impart the knowledge of the Self as well as knowledge of harmonious worldly interaction to all who came to see him. In his final days in the fall of 1987, he gave his blessing to Dr. Niruben Amin and bestowed his special siddhis upon her, to continue his work.
After Param Pujya Dadashri left his mortal body on January 2, 1988, Dr. Niruben continues his Work, traveling within India to cities and villages and abroad in the USA, Canada, UK and Africa. She is Dadashri's representative of Akram Vignan. She has been instrumental in expanding the key role of Akram Vignan as the simple and direct path to Self-Realization for modern times. Thousands of spiritual seekers have taken advantage of this opportunity and are established in the experience of the pure Soul, while carrying out their worldly duties and obligations. They experience freedom, here and now, while living their daily life.
Powerful words in scriptures help the seeker in increasing the desire for liberation. The knowledge of the Self is the final goal of all one's seeking. Without the knowledge of the Self there is no liberation. This knowledge of the Self (Atma Gnan) does not exist in books. It exists in the heart of a Gnani. Hence the knowledge of the Self can only be acquired by meeting a Gnani. Through the scientific approach of Akram Vignan, even today one can attain Atma Gnan, but it can only occur by meeting a living Atma Gnani and receiving the Atma Gnan. Only a lit candle can light another candle.
1. The True Nature of Pratikraman 2. Every Religion Mentions Pratikraman 3. These Are Not Lord Mahavir's Pratikramans 4. The Gnani Purush's Awareness 5. The Way of Akram Vignan 6. The Thorns Vanish And The Blossom Remains 7. Thus The Business Runs Clean 8. Freedom From Human Bondage 9. Pratikramans In Varying Situations 10. When Conflicts Arise 11. Purushaarth Against One's Negative Qualities... 12. Destroying Addiction With Gnan 13. Liberation From Artadhyana and Raudradhyana 14. Release From Bondage Of Inner Enemies 15. On The Path Of Cause Ahimsa 16. Vengeance of Enmity Is Unbearable 17. Removal Of The Root Cause Of Opinions 18. He Who Conquers Sexual Impulses is The King of
Kings 19. Addiction Of Compulsive Lying 20. Awareness While Speaking... 21. Faults Of The Prakruti Will Leave In This Way.... 22. Solution for Sticky Files 23. When The Mind Goes Haywire.... 24. Gnan Rescues Those Drowning In The Ocean Of Life 90 25. Understanding The Principles Behind Pratikraman 105
Please note that the numbers given in brackets after some paragraphs correspond to the page number in the original unabridged textbook.

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EDITORIAL
Should there not be some unfailing remedy for those who are sincerely trying to move forward in the path of liberation? There must be some remedy to successfully remove all kashay (internal anger, pride, greed, attachment and abhorrence) that hinder and harass people every moment of their lives. How is one to remove the gross and subtle conflict in one's life? How do we prevent ourselves from being hurt or hurting others? How can we shelter ourselves from the kashays that bombard us and stop them from recurring?
Many of us have faithfully adhered to religious rituals. We have surrendered ourselves to strict penance, fasting, meditation and other such austerities, only to discover that we still make mistakes with our minds, our speech and our conduct. Why have we not found internal peace? What should we do when we realize our faults and how should we get rid of them? There should be some method through which we can eliminate kashays from our lives, progress spiritually toward liberation and live happily with peace and love. What spiritual knowledge have the Vitarag Lords (the supreme enlightened beings) bestowed upon the world? What is true religion? Is there an assured way that one can be absolved for the sins one commits? And if there is such a method, why is it not evident?
One can attain a wealth of knowledge from scriptures, but why can one not incorporate this into one's daily life. Ascetics and spiritual teachers continue to preach, but where do they fall short in getting the desired results? Practically every religion mandates astringent rituals and austerities and yet why does the aspirant not achieve any results? Why do his kashays not decrease or his sins erased? Does not the liability for all this fall upon the heads of religion? This statement is not made with any intent of
malice but with compassion. There should be some way to eliminate our problems. What have the Gnanis and the Tirthankars said about one's progress from the state of ignorance to the attainment of Absolute Knowledge? How can we be liberated from the bondage of our past karmas and the bondage created through our inherent attachment and abhorrence?
It is said that the path of liberation is for the brave and not for cowards, but where must this valor be used to expedite liberation? Is it possible for a person with a lot of bad karmas to acquire good karmas?
How can you quell the fires of suffering that torment you throughout your life? How can a man cope with a domineering wife, difficult children and his financial worries that overshadow his peace day and night?
How can one recover from incessant kashays that exist between a Guru and a disciple? When a person expends his mind, speech and body by committing adultery or cheating others out of their wealth, where else but in hell or lower life-forms can he expect to take birth in his next life? And if one has done so, how can one become free? How can one remain cautious so as not fall prey to such acts? What are the answers to such questions that have agonized people for time immemorial?
Every human makes mistakes against his will. People become trapped in their own mistakes and suffer incessantly because they have an earnest desire to be free from them, find inner happiness and progress toward their liberation.
The Tirthankars and the Gnanis have given this world the only weapon to combat such suffering, and that weapon is the spiritual science of alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhan (alochana-confession of one's mistake; pratikraman-asking

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for forgiveness and pratyakhan - firm resolve and determination never to repeat the mistake). Infinite beings have achieved the wealth of liberation through this weapon by destroying the root of the vast tree that grows out of hatred and abhorrence. The Gnani Purush, Dada Bhagwan, through his Keval Gnan has expounded in his spoken words, the science of pratikraman, precisely as it is. His spoken words are to be found in this and many other books; words which will prove invaluable to the aspirant of truth and liberation.
The speech of the Gnani is dependent on the individual that he is addressing. The answers the Gnani gives are aimed to bring about a solution for a specific problem of individual in front of him. Therefore at times, these spoken words, when compiled in a book form may appear contradictory. For instance, for the inner satisfaction of one individual the Gnani may say, 'Pratikraman is awareness and atikraman is discharge'. And for the individual with heightened inner awareness, the Gnani may say 'Atikraman is discharge and so is pratikraman. Discharge has to be destroyed by discharge. Both the answers are correct as a solution for the individual concerned, but they are relatively contradictory because of the difference in the predicament of each individual concerned. In short, the readers are asked to understand the subtleties of the Gnani.
With this in mind, we beseech the reader's forgiveness for any apparent flaws in this compilation. It is our sincere hope that the reader attains the inner essence of the Gnani's words.
- Dr. Niruben Amin
Freedom Through Apology & Repentace Pratikraman
1. The True Nature of Pratikraman Questioner: What is the most important thing a human being should do in this life?
Dadashri: To speak and act exactly according to the thoughts in his mind. If you utter pleasant words, but harbor negative thoughts in your mind, then you must do pratikraman (ask for forgiveness). You should do the pratikraman with Dada Bhagwan as your witness. This body that you see in front of you is not Dada Bhagwan. This body is called A.M. Patel of Bhadaran (a town in Gujarat, India). Dada Bhagwan is the omniscient one, the Lord of the universe, manifest within this body. Pratikraman should be done in his name as follows:
"Dear Dada Bhagwan, this mind has had negative thoughts, for which I ask for your forgiveness. Please forgive me!"
I too do pratikraman recalling his name.
(Main book in Gujarati. Pg.1.)
To do good deeds, is dharma, and to do bad deeds is adharma. Atma dharma (religion of the Self) is to go beyond both. If you do good karmas, you will earn merits (punya) in your karmic account, the benefits of which you will have to experience in the next life. For your bad karmas (paap) you will incur debt, which you will have to suffer in the next life. A person can attain the Self,

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Pratikraman
Pratikraman
when he has cleared all debits and credits from his karmic account.
(P. 3)
Questioner: In life, karma is inevitable. What should one do when one does a negative karma either knowingly or unknowingly?
Dadashri: If that happens, there is a remedy for it. Once a misdeed has been committed, repentance should follow immediately. You must repent wholeheartedly and with sincerity. Even after repentance, should you repeat the mistake, there is no need to worry. just repent again. You are not aware of the science behind all this, so you may feel that despite your repentance, the negative deeds do not stop. Why they do not stop, is also a science in itself. You must simply carry on repenting. If you repent for your misdeeds wholeheartedly, all your bad karma will be washed away. If you hurt someone, then you absolutely must repent.
Questioner: When we carry out our normal daily activities of the body, do we have to repent for it?
Dadashri: Yes of course! Until you become Self-Realized, if you fail to repent, you will continue to bind more karmas. The tangled knots of karmas will loosen through repentance with a view to undoing wrong deeds. If not, the result from sins you bind will be so horrendous that you may even forfeit human birth in your next life. And if you manage to attain human life again, it will be full of suffering and misery: You will be deprived of food and respect and suffer constant insults. That is why repentance along with other rituals become necessary. This is called indirect devotion, not directed to wards the Self. Until you attain SelfRealization, such acts are necessary.
Now, who should be a witness to your repentance? It must be done in the presence of the God you believe in, whether it is
Lord Krishna, Dada Bhagwan or any other God. There is a cure for everything in this world. First the cure is born, and then the problem or affliction arises.
How has the world come into existence? It is because of atikraman (aggression in thoughts, speech and acts). Kraman (neutral deeds - deeds which do not have any good or bad implications) alone does not cause any problems. For example, if we damage someone's property and compensate him for the damage, it is not considered atikraman and so pratikraman is not needed. But to blame someone else for the damage to his property is atikraman. Atikraman is always taking place, so you have to do pratikraman. Any activity that takes place as a normal activity is simply kraman and there is no problem with that.
Questioner: How do we know if we have done atikraman?
Dadashri: You will know and so will the other person. You will perceive it from the expression on his face and you will feel it too. It will affect you both. That is why pratikraman must be done.
Anger, pride, attachment and greed are all considered atikraman, so if you do pratikraman, they will diminish. If you do pratikraman immediately after atikraman, your anger, pride, attachment and greed will disappear. The worldly life is created by atikraman and destroyed by pratikraman.
(P.5) Questioner: So then what is pratikraman?
Dadashri: If a person insults you, you should understand who the real culprit is behind the insult. Is it the one who insults or is it the one who feels insulted? This should be determined first. You must understand that the person who insults you is not at fault, even in the slightest degree. He is merely a nimit (instrument),
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and it is because of your own karma, which is unfolding, that you are brought together with him. The fault is your own and you must do pratikraman if you harbor any negative feelings towards him. You do not have to do pratikraman if you have no ill feelings towards him or if you feel a sense of obligation to him for being instrumental in the discharge of your karma.
not done atikraman.
(P.8) Questioner: When I see injustice in daily life, it upsets me, what should I do if this affects the way I interact with others? How should I repent if there is any injustice on my part?
Dadashri: You should do alochana (confession), pratikraman (repentance) and pratyakhyan (resolve never to repeat the mistake). This should be done in the presence of whichever God you believe in. Which God do you believe in?
When a person is unpleasant or abusive towards you, you should look upon the incident as being your own account and see him as an instrument. Even a pickpocket would be an instrument to settle your karmic account. All disputes arise because people blame the instrument. Atikraman is to walk on the wrong path and pratikraman is to retrace your footsteps.
(P.6)
Where there is discord there is no pratikraman and where there is pratikraman, there is no discord.
You have no right to physically punish your child. You only have the right to explain things to him. If you spank your child and fail to do pratikraman, you will bind negative karma. Pratikraman is necessary here.
(P.7)
It is atikraman even to say, "I am Chandubhai", but it is acceptable for the ease of worldly and social interactions. If you do not hurt anyone it is not called atikraman. If during the course of your day you hurt someone, it would be atikraman for which you must do pratikraman.
Questioner: Lord Shiva.
Dadashri: So Lord Shiva should be your witness when you repent. Your alochana should be that having recognized your fault, you do not wish to repeat it. You must repeatedly repent. If you err, you must repent. In so doing, your wrong deeds will decrease. You may cause injustice although you may not wish to. This can be attributed to the faults of prakruti (inborn nature), and the fault in your prakruti stems from your previous life, not from this life. Today you want to improve, but because of your previous causes, these faults continue to occur and they will not leave without harassing you. For this, you must continuously do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan.
(P.10) Questioner: What is the solution when one has to tolerate and endure a lot of things?
Dadashri: You should tolerate and not complain either. Tolerate with equanimity, without cursing the other person in your mind. In fact you should consider the other person as obliging you for releasing you from the bonds of your previous karma and thank him. You should feel an obligation towards him. No one suffers without a reason. Your suffering is the result of your own past karmas.
This is the science of the Vitarag. Atikraman takes you to a birth in the lower life forms, namely the animal kingdom or even hell, and pratikraman transports you to a higher life form. Only pratikraman will help you until you attain final liberation.
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Questioner: Is pratikraman only to be done for seeing faults in others?
Dadashri: Not just for that, but also for telling lies, for insulting or hurting someone. Pratikraman should be done if any violence through thoughts, speech and acts is committed towards any living being. Pratikraman should also be done for violating any of the five mahavratas (the five supreme vows of: ahimsanon-violence, satya-truth, achoriya - not stealing, aparigrahanon-greed, and bhramcharya-celibacy).
(P.11)
2. EVERY RELIGION MENTIONS PRATIKRAMAN
God has said that alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, is the essence of relative religion. These have to be done instantaneously, you should not keep anything pending. If you hurt someone, keep a mental note of it and then do your alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan.
vow, 'I will never do that again. I promise that I shall not repeat the mistake again', is called pratyakhyan. When you do pratyakhyan in this way, in your mind, one layer of karma will be shed. And if the same atikraman should occur again, it is because of another layer of karma, so you should not panic but continue with your pratikramans.
(P.13) Questioner: What is alochana?
Dadashri: Alochana is to confess your misdeed as it is and exactly the way it happened to your guru or to a Gnani.
The amount of pratikraman one needs to do depends on the amount of atikraman one does. Atikraman includes deeds that are not acceptable in society, deeds that are condemned, and deeds that inflict pain on others. If any of this applies, pratikraman is necessary.
(P.14) You have to understand who binds the karmas. What is your name?
Questioner: My name is Chandulal.
Dadashri: Then the one who says, 'I am Chandulal' is the entity that binds karma. Karma are bound even during sleep, throughout the night. What is the reason behind this? It is because of the false accusation of who you are (You are really pure Self, but you say you are Chandulal) that karma are being charged. In reality you are not Chandulal, and yet you claim that you are. 'I am Chandulal' is a false accusation and with this belief you are continuously charging karma. With your conviction of 'I am Chandulal' comes a series of other wrong beliefs, 'I am her husband; his uncle; her father, their boss, etc.' Even in sleep you bind karma, which cannot be avoided, but if you purify your ego of its conviction of 'I am Chandulal', you will not bind as many
This instant, shoot-on-sight pratikraman is only possible when one is Self-realized, and is therefore able to see his own faults. However, if a person who has not attained the Self were to apply the principle of alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan in his daily life, it would still be beneficial for him, even though he does not understand it. Self-Realization will eventually come to him.
One is bound to attain Self-Realization if one's alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan are done with sincerity. (P.12)
Questioner: Pratikraman would be to repent. Is pratyakhyan to resolve never to repeat the mistake?
Dadashri: Yes. Sincere repentance is called pratikraman. Once pratikraman is done, the atikraman will not occur again. To

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karmas.
(P.17)
Even after the ego becomes somewhat pure you will still have to perform some rituals. If your daughter-in-law breaks something expensive and you shout at her, you will have to do pratikraman for hurting her feelings. The hurt you cause is atikraman and if you do pratikraman immediately, the karma will be erased or become lighter. Whenever you do atikraman, you must erase it with pratikraman. It should be a shoot-on-sight, instantaneous pratikraman, and not the kind, which is done only once a year. Only then will it lighten this burden of suffering. If you conduct yourself according to the ways prescribed by the Vitarag, your suffering will depart.
(P.16) Questioner: How does one do pratikraman?
Dadashri: If you have attained Self-Realization, you will become aware of the Self within the other person. It is precisely the Self within that person that you must address. Otherwise, you can direct your pratikraman towards God by saying, "O Lord! I repent for my mistake. I ask for your forgiveness and resolve never to repeat it." That is all.
Questioner: Do the bad deeds get washed away?
Dadashri: Yes, yes of course they will! After pratikraman, the fault will not remain. Even a massive karma will appear as though it were a burnt rope with its cinders intact, which crumble and disperse at the slightest touch.
Questioner: And how should one repent? Should it be done outwardly so that it is visible to others or from within, in one's mind?
Dadashri: In your mind! You should remember Dadaji,
apologize for your mistake, and make a resolve never to do it again. In so doing, the pain will be erased and the mistake destroyed. If you fail to do this, your mistakes will accumulate.
Akram Vignan is the only path of its kind that allows you to see your own faults and shoot them as they appear, destroying them completely
Questioner: On one hand you commit aggression and on the other you repent. It is a never-ending thing.
Dadashri: It is not like that. If a person commits a bad deed and he repents, he can never feign repentance. When he repents, that repentance is sincere and with that, a layer of karma is removed. The onion still appears whole although one layer is gone. Another layer will be removed the next time. Repentance never goes to waste.
(P.18) Questioner: Should we not ask for forgiveness with a sincere heart?
Dadashri: A person who apologizes, does so with his heart. It will even suffice to apologize insincerely, as long as the apology is made.
Questioner: Then it will just become a habit.
Dadashri: Even if it does become a habit, it is fine as long as an apology is made. Just realize that if you do not repent, you will have to pay for it.
If someone is an alcoholic and asks for forgiveness, I tell him to keep asking for forgiveness and to make a firm resolution that he wants to quit his bad habit, even as he continues to drink. One day he will be free of his addiction. I give you this absolute guarantee through my Science. This Science is bound to grow

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and proliferate, yielding immediate results.
"This is the cash bank of Divine Solution. The only 'cash bank'. Such a bank has not appeared in the last one million years. It offers liberation within just two hours. I am ready to grant you whatever you ask of me.
(P.19)
Nature forgives a man who repents after he steals. If he repents, even God does not regard it as a sin. People on the other hand will punish him and he will have to suffer the consequences in this life. If one repents heartily his faults would eventually disappear, but they speak superficially. Although you may commit a terrible mistake, if you sincerely regret it, it will not happen again. If it occurs again, it does not matter as long as you continue to repent.
(P.21) Questioner: What is the difference between pratikraman and praschyatap?
Dadashri: Praschyatap is repentance and is general and for a number of faults and not specific to any particular fault. The Christians do a general confession of their faults every Sunday. Whereas pratikraman is specific to a fault, it is the one who commits the atikraman, who does pratikraman. Pratikraman is done instantly the moment atikraman takes place. Shoot-on-sight pratikraman should be done so that fault is erased.
(P.28) Alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, is the essence of Lord Mahavir's teachings. And in this path of Akram Vignan, the Gnani Purush is the essence of all teaching. You must simply understand that the Gnani's Agna (five cardinal instructions after Gnan) is your religion and penance. But alas! From time immemorial, people have had a tendency to interfere and not follow instructions,
(P.29)
3. These Are Not Lord Mahavir's Pratikramans
Questioner: For endless lifetimes, one has been doing pratikraman but has not attained liberation.
Dadashri: That is because one's pratikraman has not been real. Liberation is possible only when true pratikramans and true pratyakhyans are done. Pratikraman should be shoot-on-sight pratikraman. If I utter a word to cause you even the slightest hurt, I should do pratikraman spontaneously, without hesitating even for a second. You cannot afford to let things sit and stagnate.
(P.30) Pratikraman means regret, repentance. What does one have to repent for?
Question: We are not really able to repent. We just keep doing all these rituals.
Dadashri: Pratikraman is to retrace one's steps. To repent for the anger and sins you have done, is pratikraman. (P.31)
What is pratikraman? You can only call it pratikraman when your faults decrease. How can it be called pratikraman if your faults increase? God has said to do pratikraman in a language that can be understood. Do pratikraman in your own language; otherwise you will not reap any benefits from it. The pratikraman rituals are being done in the Magdhi (ancient) language. Now what good does it do for people who do not even understand Gujarati to be doing pratikraman in Magdhi? Even the sadhus and acharyas do not understand it themselves, which explains why their own faults do not decrease. Such is the state of things of today.
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after Self-relalization puts you on the path to liberation. After Selfrealization, all other ways of seeking will become beneficial towards your liberation.
Questioner: Can pratikramans become the cause of Atma Gnan (Self-Realization)?
complete understanding. Only the Navkar Mantra was worth retaining in the Magdhi language because they are the Lord's words. You must first understand the true meaning of pratikraman and understand that you are doing it, but for whom? It is either for Chandubhai insulting you or you insulting someone else.
Pratikraman means to destroy inner enemies of anger, false pride, greed and illusionary conduct.
(P.33) Nowadays, when people perform their pratikraman rituals, they do them once a year. They wear new clothes and gather. What sort of pratikraman do you call this? Is this some sort of a wedding ceremony? Pratikraman means to be remorseful and repentant. What is the relevance of wearing fancy clothes? Is someone getting married? Not only this, but they do 'rayshi' (early morning pratikraman) and 'devshi' (late evening pratikraman). How is it possible to recall each fault committed throughout the day when it is difficult for them to even remember what they ate for breakfast?
What is the religion of the Vitarag? In it five hundred or more pratikramans happen everyday. The religion of the Jain can be found everywhere but not the religion of the Vitarag. How can one do pratikraman just once a year and call oneself a Jain? Nevertheless it is better to do it even once a year than not to do it
(P.37) Although I make this statement, I have already done pratikraman before speaking in this manner. You however must not speak in such a harsh manner. Although I am saying such harsh things and pointing out mistakes, I speak out of compassion and I see everyone as faultless. Someone has to enlighten this world. People need to understand the reality as it is. (P.40)
Knowledge of the Self is the path of liberation. Pratikramans
Dadashri: No. This is because one does pratikraman for past mistakes, but at the same time new atikramans are taking place because of one's ignorance of the Self. This ignorance and illusion is unrelenting. It never stops. This illusion, to take that which appears in worldly view as real, is the cause of new karma. One is perpetually creating new karma as one destroys one's old karma through pratikraman. Old karma is an effect and one is doing pratikramans for the effects. When people do pratikraman, they bind punya (good karma).
(P.44) In the worldly life, people generally do pratikraman and if they have the awareness, they do pratikramans in the morning and at the end of the day. By doing this, they will decrease many faults, but as long as they remain ignorant of their real Self, they will not attain liberation, and their faults will continue to occur. The faults one does pratikraman for will be erased. (P.45)
at all.
But today, let alone shoot-on-sight pratikraman, people cannot even manage to do pratikraman at the end of the day, once a week or even once a month. It is done once a year and even then, without any understanding. They just make a fashion parade out of it. No one actually does the real pratikraman and so his or her faults keep increasing. One can only call it pratikraman if one's faults decrease.
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notice it. While she manages to smile, she is doing pratikraman simultaneously. She does more than five hundred pratikramans each day. A single negative thought is atikraman. People are not aware of how much atikraman they do throughout their day.(P.50)
Questioner: That is all bhaav-pratikraman (intent and feelings). One cannot do kriya-pratikraman (pratikraman through action) right?
Dadashri: No, there is no pratikraman through action. Pratikraman is an internal process. There is no action-oriented pratikraman.
basis, while these people have not done even a single one.(P.54)
There is always a veil of ignorance in any act of doership. One's faults become concealed once the veil appears. The fault is only visible when the veil of ignorance of doership is destroyed. Only a Gnani Purush can clear this sense of doership, you cannot do it on your own. The Gnani Purush will fracture and cast off all sense of doership.
(P.55) Questioner: How can one do true pratikraman? When is the pratikraman considered pure?
Dadashri: True pratikraman begins after Self-Realization. Once you attain the enlightened vision and replace your illusion with the right vision, only then will you be able to do real pratikraman. Until then, one can still decrease one's faults with pratikraman and repentance. If one does not attain this enlightened vision, but still does pratikraman after having done something wrong, one binds less karma. Do you understand that? Karma is shed with pratikraman and repentance.
Why do we quickly attempt to remove spilt coffee from our clothing?
Questioner: Can you explain what dravya (effect)pratikraman is and what bhaav (cause)-pratikraman is?
Dadashri: Your inner intentions should be: 'This should not be so.' That would be called bhaav-pratikraman. In dravyapratikraman, you actually have to utter each and every written word. It becomes a ritual. It is an effect.
(P.52)
Today's pratikramans as they are done, would find everyone in jail if the Lord were to be present here. Pratikraman is to ask for forgiveness for each and every fault and to clear that fault, thoroughly removing even the smallest of stains, leaving everything as clean as before. Today all you see is soiled, dingy, stained cloths.
Questioner: To remove the stain.
People have not done pratikraman for even a single fault and so now there are countless warehouses of faults.
Dadashri: Likewise, you must wash away internal stains. These people here immediately wash away their internal stains; the arising of the reactions of anger, greed, false pride and illusionary behavior, so everything remains spotless and meticulous. When it is done only once a year, are you able to clean all your clothes?
My pratikraman is the shoot-on-sight pratikraman. What you consider as pratikraman is not pratikraman at all, because the stains are not removed, while mine are spotless and clean.
How is it possible for this young lady here (lady who is Self-realized), to possess such high, noble and distinguished thoughts? It is because she does countless pratikramans on a daily

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immediately after I say it. This is because I fall short by four degrees (360 degrees is Absolute Enlightenment, Dadashri is at 356 degrees) and therefore I do pratikraman. I have to do pratikraman.
Pratikraman is when all the stains (atikraman) are removed and the clothes are immaculately clean.
Clothes must be laundered every single day. Each individual clothing item needs washing. What do the Jains do? They accumulate a year's worth of dirty laundry and then attempt to wash it all at once. The Lord certainly does not allow it. Each clothing item needs to be washed separately with great care. When you manage to wash at least five hundred a day, you will be making progress.
However many of your faults you are able to see, that many faults will decrease. This lady here is able to see five hundred of her faults a day, so what prevents others from seeing their own? Something is still lacking, surely it is not because they have become completely faultless that they cannot see their faults? (P.63)
The Lord has emphasized the need to do pratikraman daily but people do it once a year during Paryushan (Jain religious event of eight days). The Lord said that a true merchant is the one who keeps an account in his record book for the entire day, tallying his ledger in the evening. If he were to log everything just once a year, how would he manage to remember all his accounts and set his books straight? The Lord has stressed the importance of keeping a logbook for the entire day, as a true merchant would. If an entry is made incorrectly, that is if a misdeed occurs, it must be erased through pratikraman.
(P.64) 4. The Gnani Purush's Awareness Everyone in this world is faultless. And yet look how my speech comes out. I have seen everyone as faultless. I do not see anyone as being at fault whatsoever, so how can I speak in this manner? Is it necessary for me to speak this way? I should not speak this way about anyone and that is why I do pratikraman
Although I deliberately use stem words, according to nature, this is an error and therefore I make the one who has done atikraman (A.M.Patel), do pratikraman. Each mistake has its pratikraman. My intention however is not to hurt anyone. (P.64)
I cannot say that it is not so, when it is so and vice versa, which is why some people feel hurt by what I say. If I say something exists when it does not, you will be deluded and if I say it like it is, people will wonder why I am saying it. For all this I have to do pratikraman because no matter what, no one should be hurt. If someone believed that there was a ghost in the banyan tree, and if I told him that no such thing existed, I may hurt his feelings by disagreeing with him. So I must do pratikraman. I always have to.
(P.65) Questioner: If someone misinterprets something, what should we do?
Dadashri: All these so-called truths that you come across are all relative truths. They are all false. They may be right according to the way of the world, but from the real viewpoint, they are all wrong. Pratikraman must be done for each and every viewpoint.
You must even do pratikraman for saying, "I am a spiritual teacher”, because this is a wrong belief. In reality you are pure Self. All other beliefs are wrong beliefs. Do you understand this?
Questioner: Yes I do indeed.
Dadashri: Everything is false. Because people do not understand, they proclaim that they are telling the truth. If it were indeed the truth, it would not offend anyone.
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The instant I utter a word, I am simultaneously doing pratikraman with fervor.
Questioner: But when you tell the truth about something, then why is it necessary to do pratikraman?
Dadashri: No, I still have to do pratikraman. Why did I see someone's fault? Why did I see his fault even though he is faultless? Why did I criticize him despite this? Any truth that hurts others is not considered truth and must not be uttered. If uttered, this truth becomes a fault. It represents violence.
The way to liberation is through alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan. What do our mahatmas (people who are SelfRealized) do? They do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan throughout the entire day. If you were to ask them to do rituals and practice austerities such as fasting and penance, they will tell you that they have no need for such austerities because they have no worries and are content. They remain constantly at peace with themselves and free from all woes and anxieties, undeterred by the external world. So why would they want to complicate their lives by introducing chaos in the form of fasting etc? People who are confused do all these complicated penances and other rituals. People, who do rituals, enjoy doing them and need to do them. That is why I say that penance is for those who derive pleasure from it. Those who have a passion for the worldly life should do penance.
Questioner: People believe that in doing penance, karmas are being dispelled.
Only internal penance, can lead to discharge of karmas. That is the kind of penance these mahatmas'do'. Any penance, which is visible to others, will result in punya. The penance that remains unseen will lead to liberation.
(P.75) These sadhavijis (Jain nuns) know that they experience internal kashays (anger, pride, attachment and greed) throughout their day, so what should they do? Every evening they should mentally recall, the day's events during which they experienced even the slightest negative inner feelings towards others. Recalling each and every incident where such a feeling arose, they must do pratikraman and pratyakhyan for each one, for forty-eight minutes. If they do this then they are on the path of liberation. But the poor things, they do not do any such thing, so what can one do? If they were to understand the path to moksha, they would be on it, but first they need to understand it.
Questioner: Until they can confess and repent on a one on one basis, they will still harbor a grudge from within. So do they need to ask for forgiveness in person?
Dadashri: There is no need to ask for forgiveness directly from the person with whom the fault is committed. The Lord has forbidden this. You can only ask someone's forgiveness directly, if that person is well meaning and noble. However, if you attempt to do this with a weak person, he will only throw it back in your face. The weak person will become weaker. And the entire world is weak. Unless the person whose forgiveness you seek is goodnatured, you must not attempt to apologize to him personally. A weak person will always retaliate by saying: "See, I knew all along that you were wrong, but you did not understand. Now you realize that you were wrong." - The foolish man! He does not realize that he is the one at fault and that he is the wretched one in need of
Dadashri: That will never happen. Which penance brings about a discharge of karmas? It is not the penance that is visible to the eye, and heard by the ears. This is all external penance.

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improvement.
(P.76)
The path to liberation does not have any rituals. Rituals are only present in the worldly life. The worldly life is for those who want material and physical comforts. For them, rituals are appropriate; but they are not needed for liberation. What is the path for liberation? It is alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan. These will fuel your vehicle en route to moksha. The way to moksha is thru these no other rituals are needed. This is what I myself have done for countless lives. For so many lives I have done alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan and my efforts have brought me thus far. (P.77)
There are two religious doctrines. One is not to do any kashays (anger, false pride, greed and illusionary conduct) and the other is to do pratikraman. If kashays happen as a result of your past karmas, you must do pratikraman. That is dharma (relative religion) and nothing else. Unfortunately it is precisely these two things that people have eliminated.
If you say something hurtful to anyone, you must do pratikraman. He in turn must do pratikraman also. What pratikraman should he do? His pratikraman should be; "I must have erred somewhere in the past which has given this person the occasion to insult me." He must do pratikraman for his previous life's karma and you must do pratikraman for the present. Only through such pratikramans - being done at least five hundred times a day - can one attain liberation.
It will be enough to do just this and nothing more. You need not seek any other religion. I am giving you my guarantee and blessing you for liberation. I will be with you the entire way, giving you my full support. All that is required of you is your readiness. If you were to apply any of this in your daily life, it
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5. The Way of Akram Vignan
What does The Science of Akram say? If a person has a habit of stealing and I were to ask him in a kind and gentle manner, whether he steals, he would confess everything to me. I would tell him that I do not have an objection with his stealing, but that he must regret his acts and do pratikraman for it. (P.80)
I would teach him to do pratikraman in Dada's name and repent by saying, 'It is wrong to steal and I will never steal again.' Whatever pratikraman he does will erase the consequences of the stealing (cause karma) he has done in the past. By doing pratikraman his opinion about stealing will change. His opinion will not support the act of stealing. He should continue this pratikraman even if he continues to steal. Only I understand what happens when one utters such pratikraman. Akram Vignan teaches us that whatever has occurred cannot be undone, but there is a way to make things better for the life to come. (P.81)
Every religion says that you are the 'doer' of penance and renunciations. They tell you to renounce. If you do not, they say that you are not doing it. To say that you are not doing it' is the same as saying that you are the 'doer'. By saying this they accept 'doer-ship'. Even when someone says that he is not able to renounce anything, it is tantamount to claiming 'doership'. Any path that accepts or believes in 'doership' is the path of worldly wanderings. In Akram, we do not accept 'doership'. None of the literature of Akram prescribes 'doership' of any sort.
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time and energy. What they really need to do is something completely different. Really all one needs 'to do', is ask for inner strength (bhaavna). Everything that is taking place now is because of the strength that was previously asked for.
(P.84) Questioner: Everything from our previous lifetime is in the form of an effect, is it not?
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Dadashri: Yes, everything that you have done in the past life has come into effect in this life. So now ask for strength as a cause for the next life. Just ask for the strength by saying the Nine Kalams (See at the end of this book). If we were to write a hundred to two hundred such kalams, it would incorporate all the scriptures. All you really have to do is ask for strength and nothing more. If you want to do something as a doer, then ask for strength.
Questioner: Is it simply a matter of asking for strength?
Dadashri: Yes, because not everyone will seek liberation. However, if people want to be doers of anything, they should just ask for strength.
Questioner: This applies only to those who have not acquired Gnan, right?
Dadashri: Yes, this is applicable to them only. This is for the people at large because at the moment the path they are taking is completely wrong and they will never succeed in their endeavors.
(P.85) A person may want to do something and yet he is prevented from doing so, what can he do if the effect of his karma works against him? The Lord says that you must remain in the present and be an observer of all that happens around you. The Lord did not advocate doing anything, yet people are perpetually griping about not being able to do something. They constantly complain
about their desire to do things, their efforts to do them and their inability to get things done. Do you know what effect the constant contemplation of your inability to do anything has on the relative self? It will tum the soul relative self into a stone (without feelings). In spite of this, people carry on with their rituals and austerities and simultaneously gripe about how difficult they are to perform.
I tell people that they should never say, 'I can not do', because within them, they have infinite strength. I tell them to keep repeating the following: 'I have infinite strength. Until now you kept saying, 'I can't do it'; did the infinite strength within abandon
(P.87) Man is not capable of doing anything. It is not in his nature to do anything. The control of doership' is in the hands of another power. All these living beings are simply the knower. Therefore all that you must do is to be the knower. When you understand this, your falsely held beliefs and opinions disappear. The opinions you held before that there is no harm in telling lies, will change. This is the real purushaarth (real knowledge based effort), no other effort is needed. This is a profound message, which requires profound thinking Questioner: Yes, it is very acceptable.
(P.89) Dadashri: Even the simple act of going to the bathroom (emptying your bowels) is not in your hands, so how is it possible for you to do anything? No such man has yet been born, who has even the slightest power to do anything. All you have to do is simply to know and make a firm resolution to be the knower only. Once you understand my words, your work will be done. This is not a simple thing to grasp. Do you understand this? Is it not better to know than to do something? Is it easy to do and attain anything?

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(P.90)
Questioner: I understand what you mean to say, but surely some things will still need to be done having understood all that? Just as we do not possess the power to do anything, do we not also lack the power to know?
Dadashri: No. One has the power to know. To do is not in one's power. This is very subtle, but it will be enough if you understand just this much.
A youngster has turned into a thief. He steals at every opportunity. He even steals from guests who come to his house. Now what lesson should we give to this boy? We should tell him to ask Dada Bhagwan (the Lord within) to give him the strength not to steal. People may question what good does it do when he continues to steal, even though he asks for the strength not to. Let him steal as long as he asks for the strength to not steal. Only I know the effect this remedy has on him. What do you know about how this medicine works?
him the strength no matter what. He will grant it to everyone, but first one must ask and one must also know what to ask for. Keep asking. You never ask for a thing. Do you understand why you should ask for strength?
(P.91) Whatever you need forgiveness for, you must ask for the strength from Dada. Ask for the strength, but do not use any of your own, lest you run out of it. If you ask for the strength and use it, you will never run out of it. Moreover, you will have some left over. How much stock can you have in your own shop?
You should ask Dada for strength in everything. If you fail to do pratikraman, you must ask for the strength to do proper pratikraman. Ask for all the strength. I have as much strength as you need.
(P.92) 6. The Thorns Vanish And The Blossom Remains
Prakruti (the complex of thoughts, speech and acts) has arisen out of doer ship and normal action and through atikraman it has proliferated. This proliferation decreases with pratikraman and as a result a person will become aware.
(P.101) If you go to meet a person you think is a Gnani and he turns out to be a phony, it would be your karma effect. Karma effect is responsible for taking you there. And if after meeting him, you have negative thoughts about him, then you will sow new seeds of bad karma. The effect of this causal karma will be experienced in your next life. You will have to suffer the consequences of this negative cause in your next life. Thoughts may occur, but you must do pratikraman for having them, and that will erase the new cause.
Remember to do pratikraman in the name of whichever God you believe in. When you do your pratikraman, your bhaav
Questioner: It is true that people have no idea about how this medicine works, and that is why they do not understand whether there are any benefits in asking for the strength.
Dadashri: What is the significance of asking for strength? Firstly he asks for the strength to stop stealing which means his opinion about "There is nothing wrong in stealing' has changed to that of, 'Stealing is wrong and not to steal is right'. By asking for strength he comes to have the opinion that stealing is wrong. This change of opinion is the greatest achievement.
Once his opinion changes, he ceases to be nature's offender.
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should be that it does not matter what the other person is like, but your thoughts or behavior should not be negative. There is no accountability on your part in saying that someone is good, when he is good, but there is a tremendous accountability in saying someone is bad when he or she is not. There is also a liability in saying that someone is bad, when he is bad. Because in reality a person is never bad, it is his effect karma that makes him good or bad. He is not at fault, but it is his circumstances that make him so. So how can you blame him?
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If a group of women are passing by and the person you are with makes a comment about one of them and tells you that she is a prostitute. If you become prejudiced based on what he says, you will incur a tremendous liability. The woman has been forced in that predicament by her circumstances; she is suffering the consequences of her own effect karma. Why must you take on a liability on her account? She has not become a prostitute of her own will. No living being likes to be degraded. It is a circumstance that initially drives a person to do something, but later it becomes a habit with him or her. Nevertheless initially it was circumstances that drove them to do so.
(P.102)
Questioner: Are the people who are not Self-realized, able to see only certain kinds of faults?
Dadashri: I tell them they should learn to ask for forgiveness for their faults. Whatever faults they perceive in themselves, they should ask for forgiveness. They should never condone their fault; otherwise the fault will double. Ask for forgiveness after you do something wrong.
Questioner: How should those who are not Self-Realized do pratikraman when they see their own faults?
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Dadashri: There are some people who despite not having this knowledge, are very sharp and have a keen awareness of their faults. They understand what pratikraman is and they do it. Others are not included in this, but we still need to tell them to repent. (P.104)
What happens in the process of pratikraman? It is when the Self puts pressure on the 'relative' self. Atikraman is the process whereby the 'Real' becomes suppressed. When the karma is an atikraman, and you support it, a new setback will occur. It is a fault if you do not accept something wrong, as wrong. So pratikraman is very necessary. (P.105) Questioner: What if the other person does not forgive me for my atikraman despite my pratikraman?
Dadashri: Do not be concerned about the other person forgiving you. The atikraman tendencies within you must go. You must become an opponent of atikraman. That is how it should be.
Questioner: What if the other person continues to be hurt? Dadashri: Do not be concerned about the other person. Be firm in your conviction that you are an adversary of atikraman. It is not your wish to do atikraman but if it happens, you should feel remorse and your intent should be that you do not want it to happen again. (P.106)
Pratikraman is to be done to destroy your opinions and to show that you are not endorsing atikraman. Pratikraman is to be done to show your opposition towards any aggression. Do you understand?
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Dadashri: Everything is discharge. Everything. Pratikraman is only for the atikraman done, and not for anything else. If you do not do pratikraman, your innate nature and tendencies will never change. Do you understand?
Unless you oppose it, it will never become exposed and that opinion will stay with you. If you become angry, you must do pratikraman because you do not wish to support your anger. If you fail to do pratikraman, it would mean that you are in favor of your anger. You become free from your faults in this way. This allows you to shed your karmas. There should be a means to express your defiance towards your anger.
aware of your atikraman and you will immediately do pratikraman and automatically wash away your faults. This process will continue to take place systematically. Once these faults are cleared, the other person will not feel any negativity towards you. Otherwise when you meet the other person again, there will be a sense of separation from him and awareness of the presence of an internal rift.
(P.112) Questioner: How are we to wash away our paap (demerit) karmas?
Dadashri: As many stains (effect of hurting others) that appear from your paap karma, you must do that many pratikraman. If a stain is stubborn, then it will need to be washed over and over
again.
Questioner: How can you tell whether that stain is gone or not?
Do you want anger to become a part of you or do you want to be rid of it?
Questioner: I want to get rid of it.
Dadashri: If you want to get rid of it, then you must do pratikraman for it. Only then, can you maintain that you are opposed to your anger. Otherwise, it would be the same as supporting it.
(P.109) What does pratikraman mean? It means to become lighter and feel freer. If the same fault were to occur again, the person would feel very uneasy from within. People in general keep multiplying their faults.
Have you witnessed a real pratikraman where your fault has gone or decreased?
Questioner: Nowhere else. Just here.
Dadashri: You will only be able to do pratikraman when, after Gnan, you will realize from within that a fault has occurred. Until then, you will not. After taking this Gnan, you will be more
Dadashri: You will know when your mind becomes clean. Your face will glow. Natural smile will take hold. Will you not know then that the stain is gone? And even if the stain has not gone, there is no problem. All you have to do is continue with your pratikraman. Keep scrubbing away with the soap of pratikraman. Do you understand what paap is?
Questioner: It is paap when one does not comply with Dada's Agnas.
Dadashri: No it is not that. That is not paap. Paap is when you hurt others, whether it is a tree, a human or an animal, or any living being. To pick leaves from a tree unnecessarily, is a sin because the tree also perceives pain.
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whereas paap karma hurts others. It is a sin when you hurt others, therefore you should not inflict even the slightest pain on others.
When you do pratikraman, your clothes will become cleaner. Why leave dirt on your clothes when Dada has given you such a simple solution? Why not use it and get your clothes radiantly clean?
will not become further complicated, because you will inevitably think of Dada and the practical science of Akram will be there to relieve you of all conflicts. I caution you not to make mistakes and if ever you happen to do so, you must continue to do pratikraman. Now you have the understanding of the implications of your mistakes. Elsewhere people are tired of listening to the same old preaching of 'Be truthful, do not steal, be kind etc.
Whenever you hurt someone even slightly, you must accept the fault as your own. You will know that you have hurt him because you will feel uneasy from within. You can see that the other person's mistake is evident because he is suffering, but you too are at fault because you became instrumental in his suffering. Dada does not have any suffering because he no longer has any faults. So if someone is hurt by your actions, you must immediately do pratikraman and erase that fault. Also if someone else commits a fault because of you, you have to do pratikraman. (P.113)
Questioner: I never got much out of doing pratikraman as prescribed in the kramic (traditional path of liberation involving rituals, penance, recitation of scriptures etc) path, but when I do the pratikraman as shown in Akram Vignan, I feel as light as a flower.
Do not sleep on your mistakes. If you have any conflicts within, you must clear it before fall asleep. If you cannot clear this conflict, you should simply do pratikramans. You should ask for forgiveness because you are the one feeling disturbed. In this way, you will succeed in finding a solution, otherwise these mistakes will continue to occur all the time. Forgiveness is the greatest weapon
(P.116)
Dadashri: But those are not pratikramans in any case. They were all pratikraman done in ignorance and without any understanding. Pratikraman means that your faults must decrease right away. Pratikraman means to track back whatever distance you have traveled in the wrong direction. But when people do pratikraman, not only do they fail to do this, but they also continue to walk further in that wrong direction. How can that be called pratikraman?
When you scold someone, do you ever stop to think how you would feel if someone were to scold you? You should consider this before you scold anyone. To think about the other person and to put yourself in his shoes is the mark of a humanego, whereas being inconsiderate and getting into a disagreement with him and thinking only about yourself when you interact with him, is a bestial ego.
(P.116) If someone points out your mistakes, you should tell Chandulal (your relative self) that he (Chandulal) must indeed have made a mistake, and that is why it is being pointed out to him. Why else would someone bring it to his attention? People in general would not say anything without reason, so naturally he must have done something wrong. Tell Chandubhai to do pratikraman when he hurts anyone. If you want liberation, you can no longer afford to do as you please.
(P.118)
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You have no right to see faults in others. If you do, you must do pratikraman. Chandulal is adept at seeing faults of others. It is nothing new. This habit does not break very easily, but through pratikraman it does eventually cease. When you see faults in others, you must immediately do pratikraman. That means shooton-sight pratikraman.
Questioner: I am not yet able to do the kind of pratikraman that are called for.
Dadashri: You must make the firm resolution of what you really want to accomplish.
Questioner: Would that not involve the ego of doership? What is meant by this firm resolution?
Dadashri: This is merely the use of words. The resolution is internal.
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If it is not possible to do it immediately, do it after a couple of hours or even at night. You can also do pratikraman after a week for all the faults committed throughout the week. Just do them collectively all at once.
Questioner: But it should be done immediately, right?
Dadashri: There is nothing better than immediate pratikraman. Most of our mahatmas do shoot-on-sight pratikraman. (P.120)
Questioner: Sometimes, even while I contemplate Dada, or do aarti, my mind wanders and I lose track of my thoughts for a while and I begin to sing something entirely different, but eventually I do come back to the present.
Dadashri: When that happens, you must do pratikraman. When you have thoughts, it matters little as long as you are able to recognize that they belong to 'Chandulal'. If you can perceive this, then you and Chandulal become two separate entities. Your mind wanders because your awareness becomes a little dim.
Questioner: I am not at all aware during such a time.
Dadashri: Then you must do pratikraman for your loss of awareness. 'Dada Bhagwan forgive me'.
Questioner: Sometimes I realize very late that I have to do pratikraman, and that I have to do pratikraman for certain people.
Dadashri: But you do eventually remember do you not? You need to spend more time in satsang and ask about everything in detail. This is a science and it requires your full comprehension.
Questioner: Many of the mahatmas are under the impression that they do not have to do a thing, including making resolution.
Dadashri: No, if they were to ask me, I would tell them that resolution means a firm decision. It means that when you undertake something, you do it in precisely a certain way and no other. This is the case with pratikraman.
(P.119) Questioner: I am unable to do shoot-on-sight pratikraman when I am under stress, and sometimes it is not until the evening that I realize that I had made a mistake. Can those mistakes be erased even though pratikraman is done much later? Would that still resolve everything?
Dadashri: Yes even if it occurs to you later on, you must do pratikraman. If you do something wrong, you must do

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It is not easy to see your own fault. I illuminate everything for you. You must first have your aware attentiveness to faults, and the desire to see your faults. It is like bringing up your hand in order to eat. Would the food go into your mouth by just wishing for it? Some kind of an effort has to be made on your part.
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It is natural for humans to err, but how can they escape from this? Only a Gnani Purush can show you how and it is through pratikraman. (P.121)
Pratikraman is occurring naturally and spontaneously from within. People ask if this is true. I tell them that I have placed a special 'machine' inside them, which starts the process. Everything is ready as long as you are earnest about it.
Questioner: That is true Dada the pratikraman is going on automatically. Furthermore this science is such that there is no more hatred. (P.123) Questioner: This person is asking why can he not do pratikraman?
Dadashri: He does not realize that it is indeed happening within him, but when he says that he cannot do it, the machinery stops and the process comes to a halt. Whatever your prayers, such will be your worship. If you say pratikramans are indeed beneficial and are occurring from within, they will occur. If you say they are of no benefit or they are not necessary, they will stop. The pratikraman will start after some time.
Questioner: I do not like it when I hurt someone, but that's as far as it goes. I do not do any pratikraman.
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will not be able to do it. If you tell yourself you are tired of doing pratikraman, then the 'machinery' will also become sluggish. It is 'Chandubhai' who is doing the pratikraman and he is the one who is supposed to do it. All you have to do is keep saying that you are able to do pratikraman and before you know it, you too will be doing five hundred or more pratikramans a day. (P.123)
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Whenever possible try to do 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman, as soon as the mistake is made. Failing that, do pratikraman collectively in the evening. Through the latter, however, you might forget a few of your mistakes. Who is going to take care of those? So your responsibility is to do shoot-on-sight pratikraman. (P.124)
Know that your ticket for liberation has arrived when you begin to see your own faults. Generally people cannot see their own faults, including these monks and religious teachers. Not to be able to perceive one's own fault is the greatest of all shortcomings. This Science is such that it gives you an unbiased judgement by uncovering and disclosing all your faults. It uncovers them for you, even though sometimes it may do so after they occur. Whatever happens happens, but at least you realize your mistakes. (P.127)
7. Thus The Business Runs Clean Questioner: If you set Chandulal free, then he is likely to do anything at whim!
Dadashri: No. That is why I have emphasized vyavasthit. You cannot change anything at all for this current life, the life in which I am giving you vyavasthit. Vyavasthit cannot be changed at all. So in giving you this knowledge of vyavasthit, you cannot change a single thing in this life. This is why I am setting you free. I can see all this in my Gnan, so I do not need to reprimand you for any of your effects. You are not held accountable for just this

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worldly endeavor and you realize that you have said more than you should have, then you should immediately do pratikraman.
(P.134)
Questioner: Can one charge interest on money one lends?
Dadashri: If Chandulal wants to claim interest, let him do so, but tell him he will have to do pratikraman for it. (P 130)
If you have lent some money to a person and he is not returning it, your pratikraman will affect the other person positively and he will be inspired to return your money. Generally, people create havoc and curse their creditors who demand payment. Would this not create a negative karma? People make matters worse. The entire world is effective. And that is why you have to do pratikraman for the person who is refusing to retum your money.
Questioner: If you do pratikraman for the borrower, will he not continue to borrow?
Dadashri: It is not a question of whether he will ask to borrow from you or not. The important thing here is not to let any attachmentor abhorrence occur. The borrowing may still continue.
(P131) If a person wants to be happy in this world but he does not care about religion, I would tell him that he should be honest and ethical. Then, he does not need to go to a temple. Giving to others is a godly quality. To avoid taking something that does not belong to you is a human quality. Honesty is the highest religion. Dishonesty is the best foolishness.
It is not possible to be honest all the time, but if one understands that it is wrong to be dishonest and does pratikraman for it, then his next life will be happy. A person is surely honest when he repents.
If you have a disagreement with your associate in any
If your bank manager refuses you a loan, you will begin to dislike him and have negative thoughts towards him. You should realize that the mistake is yours, so you should wash it off by doing pratikraman. This is what I call awareness.
I will explain to you how obstacles in life come about. If you call a person who works for you, an idiot, this becomes an obstacle for your own commonsense. Obstacles created in this way, trap the entire world and the human life goes to waste. You have no right to tell anyone that he has no sense. If you do this, that person may retort by calling you an idiot and create an obstacle for himself. Similarly if you call someone unworthy, you are creating an obstacle to your own self worth. Now tell me how can this world be saved from such obstacles? If you do pratikraman immediately, then you will be able to wash away these obstacles before they become impossible to remove.
Questioner: In my work, in order to accomplish certain deadlines, I have insulted and mistreated many people.
Dadashri: You must do pratikraman for them all. When you mistreated them, you were only fulfilling your duty. You did not do it for yourself therefore your intention was not bad.(P.135)
8. Freedom From Human Bondage Questioner: What must we do to be free from the relations of previous lives that are now in front of us?
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pratikraman in his name. The suffering for you in this life is the effect of your atikraman from your past life. What were the causes behind your suffering today? In your previous life you did atikraman against that person and as a result in this life you have to suffer the consequences. If you do pratikraman now, in the presence of whichever God you worship, you will erase your mistakes. Repeated pratikramans will wipe off the many errors that have been caused in these sticky relationships.
If a man dislikes his wife, he will see many faults in her and will harp on her negative points. This constant faultfinding leads to abhorrence. This abhorrence results in fear. He will experience fear in certain interactions with her. So when he sees her, he feels a sense of suffocation and bondage. We all tend to be afraid of those or that which we dislike intensely. All this is the result of abhorrence. To break free from this feeling of contempt, one has to keep asking for forgiveness. Even though the other person may not be aware of it, you have to continue asking for forgiveness from within
(P.141) Life is nothing but a play. In a play if you assume that the people who play the role of your wife and children are yours to take home, will it be appropriate? It is fine if you introduce your son and say, 'This is my son Shataayu', but say it as you would in a drama. The reason you have to do pratikraman is because you have taken all these relatives to be real. You must do pratikraman because all along you have acted as if they are really your children and wife. If you did not have this belief then pratikraman would not be necessary. With this belief comes attachment and abhorrence and with pratikraman you are liberated. Dada shows you how to do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan that will liberate you.
(P.142) No one has the power to bother anyone and no one has
the power to endure. Everyone is merely a puppet going about his or her business on the stage of this world. With pratikraman these puppets learn to live in peace and harmony. No matter how insane the other person may be, he will come to his senses through your pratikraman.
(P.143) If you do not get along at all with a person, if you do pratikraman for him all day long and for several days, you will be able to get along with him and he will seek your company. All strife and bitterness is because of your atikraman faults. (P.144)
Questioner: Sometimes I feel unappreciated and disheartened. I feel that no matter how much I do for that person, he keeps insulting me.
Dadashri: You must do his pratikraman. This is the way of the world. There are so many different kinds of people who will hold you back from your liberation.
Questioner: What should that pratikraman be for?
Dadashri: Pratikraman should be done because of your past life cause which has come into effect now. And it should be done because you are now becoming instrumental in him binding a new karma.
The world will not allow anyone to be liberated. The bondage of this life is such that only pratikraman can release you. For this reason, Lord Mahavir has given us alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan in just one sentence. There is no way out. When is one able to do pratikraman correctly? It is when he attains the knowledge of the Real Self from a Gnani Purush. With this knowledge you become aware of the Self, and this awareness will allow you to do pratikraman and be released from the burden of any liability.
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Questioner: How can you restore the trust you had for someone who has betrayed you?
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Dadashri: You must repent for all the times you have harbored negative thoughts for him. If you have lost faith in him, you have to repent for any ill thoughts about him. Only then will things be settled. That is why pratikraman is so necessary.(P.146) 9. Pratikramans In Varying Situations
Questioner: How can we tell if the other person is hurt?
Dadashri: You will immediately see it on his face. The sparkle in his eyes will have disappeared and his face will appear gloomy. Of course you will be able to tell whether or not he has been affected. It will be all too obvious.
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: Man has the capability to perceive what has happened to the other person.
Questioner: But some people are so good that they hide their true feelings and never give anything away through their expressions.
Dadashri: Even then you will know that you have said some hurtful things, and that it is bound to hurt him. And for that you must do pratikraman. If you said something hurtful, will you not know that it would hurt him?
Questioner: Yes I would know it.
Dadashri: You are not doing pratikraman for him. You are actually doing this to change your previous opinions. What is pratikraman? It reverses your past opinions. By doing pratikraman, the effect your words may have had on him, is erased instantly.
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Just keep in mind that you want to settle your interaction with him with equanimity and his mind will also improve through it. If however you are determined to get only your own way, his mind will react in the same way, with as much hostility. (P.151).
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Questioner: What do you call it when after treating someone with contempt you feel remorse?
Dadashri: If you feel remorse, you will break the habit of contempt. However, if you feel no remorse and on the contrary feel good about yourself and your deeds, know that it is a sign of going to hell. You must have remorse after doing something wrong.
Questioner: What should we do if we have hurt someone so badly that he is depressed?
Dadashri: Do pratikraman. And if you happen to meet that person again, then must tell him that the mistake was all yours and that you were insensitive. Tell him that you are sincerely sorry and that you are asking for his forgiveness. His wounds will heal when you say this.
Questioner: What should we do in order not to suffer the effects of behaving contemptuously towards others in the past?
Dadashri: For acts of contempt there is no other solution but to do repeated pratikramans. You have to keep on doing pratikraman until that person comes around. And if you happen to meet him face to face, then you should speak to him nicely and ask for forgiveness. Say to him: "I have made a very big mistake. I am a complete fool. I have no sense." When you discredit yourself, the other person feels better and his hurt will lessen.
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mistreat people. If you treat manual workers with contempt, they will take revenge in their next life. They may even become a snake and bite you to avenge themselves. Contempt will never free you from its grip. Only pratikraman can save you.
Questioner: If we have made someone miserable beyond words and hurt him deeply to the point where we cannot remove his pain, will we bind karmas even if we do pratikraman?
Dadashri: You must continue to do the pratikraman in his name with as much intensity as the pain you caused him. (P.155)
A judge asked me whether or not he should give a death penalty now that he had attained the Gnan from Dada. I asked him what other choice he had. He wanted to know whether he would still bind karma if he were to confer a death sentence on someone. I asked him whether he was the Pure Self or Chandulal, and he replied that he was the Pure Self. Then I told him, if you are the Pure Self, then whatever Chandulal does, is done by Chandulal, at Chandulal's risk and responsibility. It is entirely up to you. If you want the burden of responsibility of the death penalty, you are Chandulal. I do not have any problem with that. I warned him not to be a partner in crime and gave him a way to resolve his dilemma. I told him to beseech in prayer: "Oh Dada Bhagwan, why do I have to deal with such an unpleasant task?" and do pratikraman for it. I counseled him to continue with his line of work as prescribed by the laws. (P.157)
Questioner: Since we rid ourselves of our faults by doing pratikraman, would this not give people the right to do as they please?
Dadashri: No, you do not have to look at it that way. The importance is given to pratikraman. You are free, free from your
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(P.158)
Sometimes, very rarely, I myself end up hurting people. It happens against my will. Within the past twenty years, I may have hurt two or three people. I however, followed it up with my pratikramans, constructing a fortress around them so that they would not suffer a spiritual fall. A person should not fall from the place where I have put him. I give him all the support and protection and then let go of him gently, once he is stable.
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My principle is to go as far as to change the course of a highway to protect a newly planted sapling from harm. In the same way I would never allow anyone to come to harm. (P.159)
Questioner: If someone does something wrong to us and he comes to ask for forgiveness, we forgive him. We have forgive him internally even when he does not ask for forgiveness. What if he keeps doing the same thing over and over again, what should we do?
Dadashri: Try as best as you can to explain to him in a gentle and kind manner. There is no other way because you do not have any control over the matter. You have no choice other than to forgive him. If you do not forgive, you will end up forgiving after more suffering. There is no other way. You have to make him understand and you should try to make him see his error. If he changes his internal intent and recognizes that it is wrong for him to hurt you, your work is done. His hurting you is an effect for him. (P.160)
How much good would it do you to know that your son has pilfered some loose change from your wallet while running an errand for you? You must accept him the way he is. Can you throw him out and find another son? (P.161)

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10. When Conflicts Arise
Dadashri: That is a subtle conflict.
Questioner: Does it have anything to do with the mind? Does verbal conflict also come under subtle?
Questioner: Do we need to do pratikraman more often or would it suffice to do it just once, for the karma created during a prolonged period of conflict where there was an exchange of a lot of words?
Dadashri: Do as many individual pratikramans as you can, and then do collective pratikramans. If too many pratikramans accumulate, do them all at once. "Oh Dada Bhagwan, I am doing the pratikraman simultaneously for all the faults I have committed". Then it will be all over.
(P.166)
I guarantee that you will attain full liberation in only three lifetimes, provided that you stop the conflict with others. If the conflicts occur, you must do pratikraman. Conflicts occur between two pudagals (effective complexes of thoughts, speech and acts) and these conflicts can be dissolved with pratikraman.
If the other person is dividing then you should be *multiplying', so that there will be no remainder. To blame others for saying anything to you that hurts you, is your fault. Why do you not blame the wall when you bump into it?
Questioner: Give me an example of gross, subtle, very subtle and the extremely subtle forms of conflict. What is a subtle conflict?
Dadashri: Subtle conflict for example would be that which you have with your father.
Questioner: Like what? Dadashri: Do you fight? Questioner: No.
Dadashri: No verbal is gross conflict. Subtle conflict is that which the other person cannot see.
Questioner: How can we avoid such subtle conflicts?
Dadashri: First you must tackle the gross conflict, then the subtle, then the very subtle and finally the extremely subtle conflicts.
Questioner: What is an example of a very subtle conflict?
Dadashri: This applies only to the one who is SelfRealized. If you slap someone and a person who is Self-realized happens to witness it, The Self realized person maintains the awareness of the Self, and sees that it was vyavasthit for the other person to receive the slap. If even for an instant he sees you or the other person as being at fault, this would be considered a very subtle fault or conflict.
Questioner: Please explain that to me again. I did not understand.
Dadashri: For you who have taken this Gnan of the Self, to see faults of others is an example of very subtle conflict or fault.
Questioner: So when we look at others' faults, it is very subtle conflict?
Dadashri: No that's not it. Very subtle conflict is to see others' faults, even when you have attained the conviction through Gnan that no one is at fault. How can you see faults in person when he is in reality the pure Self? You should have an awareness

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Questioner: So does that include all these mental conflicts? Dadashri: All that belongs to subtle conflicts. Questioner: So what is the difference between the two? Dadashri: This all goes beyond the realm of the mind. Questioner: Mental conflict and those faults.....
Dadashri: That does not belong to the mind. The very faults are beyond the mind.
Questioner: Does it mean that where there is very subtle conflict, subtle conflict is also present?
Dadashri: You do not have to be concerned about that. They are all different. The extremely subtle conflict or fault comes last.
Questioner: It was mentioned once during satsang that when we become engrossed with our relative self (Chandulal), it is considered an extremely subtle fault.
Dadashri: Yes. That is the extremely subtle fault. Such fault should be avoided. You will inadvertently become engrossed with your relative self, but eventually you will realize that mistake.
Questioner: Although we say in our prayers that we do not wish for any temporary worldly things and that all we want is the experience of the Self, our relative self still becomes engrossed in worldly matters. Is that not an extremely subtle fault?
Dadashri: Yes.
Questioner: Is there any other remedy available or is pratikraman the only cure for this?
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Dadashri: There is no other weapon. (P.172) Questioner: But Dada when we have to do pratikraman, is that not our ego?
Dadashri: No. 'You' the pure Self, do not have to do pratikraman. It is Chandulal who is at fault and so he is the one that must do pratikraman. The pure Self is simply the knower and has never erred. This worldly life is a consequence of atikraman. The ego and the intellect together are responsible for atikraman. (P.173)
11. Purushaarth Against One's Negative Qualities...
Not a single lifetime has gone by without raag (attachment). People continue to do raag-dwesh (abhorrence) until the moment they become Self-realized. Besides these two there is nothing else.
Questioner: Dada, abhorrence results from attachment, does it not?
Dadashri: Yes it is the result of attachment. When you become overly attached to someone, you will experience abhorrence towards him later. Anything that is done in excess will lead to an initial dislike and then abhorrence. When anything exceeds its limit, we start disliking it. Excess dislike is abhorrence. Do you understand?
Questioner: Yes I understand.
Dadashri: You must understand that whatever you encounter are your own reactions, effect of past causes. When you greet someone with a lot of respect but he appears to be sulking, you should understand that it is because of your own previous cause. So you must do pratikraman. Generally people

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have any doubts? It is human nature to have doubts, but you must do instant pratikraman for this mistake.
(P.177) When you become aware of the slightest thought, good or bad, about anyone, you must erase it immediately. If these thoughts are allowed to linger, they will reach the other person and proliferate. They can grow in a matter of hours and continue for days. You should not allow your vibrations to flow in this way.
will respond by sulking in return. And the cycle of attachmentabhorrence carries on. Now that you have received this Gnan, you must accept your mistakes and settle the case with equanimity. As a Gnani Purush I accept all the mistakes.
(P.174) Questioner: What can we do to stop feelings of jealousy after this Gnan?
Dadashri: There are two ways to deal with that. One is that when you experience such feelings you must repent. The other is that the feelings of jealousy are the result or effect from your previous life and they just happen. You do not make them happen. These feelings will disappear provided that you do not accept them as yours and become involved with them. Just be aware of the traits of jealousy occuring within and remain separate. If however, you become jealous then you have to pratikraman.
Questioner: I do not want to harbor any suspicion for anyone, yet it happens. How can I stop this, Dada?
Dadashri: You must see the Pure Self of the person whom you have suspicions for, and ask for forgiveness. You should do pratikraman. These doubts that you feel come from the mistakes from your previous lifetime.
(P.176) You are walking alone at night and you feel afraid that you might be mugged; you must do pratikraman for this. This suspicion spoils everything. Take the necessary precautions but do simultaneous pratikramans. If you harbor suspicions, things may go wrong. Do not allow yourself to become suspicious of any living being. Suspicion brings suffering. If you do nothing to dismiss your doubts, they will consume you.
When you feel doubt, you must make Chandulal do pratikraman. You are the Lord of this universe, so why must you
A large portion of effects of the deeds done in this life is destroyed with pratikraman. When you do pratikraman, your karma will become weak like a burnt rope, with its cinders intact, and will disintegrate at the slightest jolt. In your next life all you will have to do is shake off the cinders. Every act done in this life is an effect. Within it, unknown to the doer of the act, are the causes of next life. These causes give their results as effects in next life. For negative acts performed in this life, pratikraman changes the causes within, and therefore the desired result is the effect in the next life.
(P.180)
12. Destroying Addiction With Gnan
Questioner: I am addicted to the bad habit of smoking. What should I do?
Dadashri: Maintain within that this smoking is wrong. Furthermore never defend the act of smoking in any manner. If you do, it will only serve to reinforce and protect your habit. Admit that you have a weakness and that it is a bad habit. Only then there will come a time when you will be able to break free from this addition. If you do not, then this addiction will stay with you forever.
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opinions held within. It is not acceptable to have an opinion of any kind.
By doing pratikraman one attains the ultimate thing. Technically pratikraman is required but scientifically it is not necessary.
Questioner: How is it scientific?
Dadashri: Scientifically it is all a discharge. Everything that happens is an effect of past life causes. After this Gnan, you become completely separate from Chandulal. So why then do you need to do pratikraman? The state of separation does not remain because of the lack of exact awareness of the separation. Pratikraman erases all opinions. If pratikraman is not done, all opinions that have become ingrained within you will not leave. By doing pratikraman, you are distancing yourself from these opinions.
The mind is composed and constructed through opinions. So as many opinions you have, that much of a mind you will have.
Questioner: Since we were on the subject, I had to mention this.
Dadashri: 'T' (The Self) do not drink tea, but sometimes circumstances lead me (A.M.Patel) to do so. These circumstances are not under my control and so I am forced to drink tea. But I (A. M. Patel) do not drink without doing pratyakhan first, otherwise the one who likes tea will continue to do so. Pratyakhyan is like smearing oil on a surface so that nothing will adhere to it.
This is worth understanding. Do pratyakhyan whenever you do all these acts, even which do not hurt others, like drinking tea etc. Pratikraman should be done whenever atikraman has occurred. Drinking tea is not considered atikraman. You are
ompelled to drink tea and that would not be considered atikraman, but if you do not do pratyakhyan, then a little of it will 'stick' to you. From now on remember to do pratyakhyan.(P.187)
I have very rare times of physical suffering. There was an entire month after my car accident, when it seemed that this light was going to extinguish.
Questioner: Nothing like that is going to happen Dada.
Dadashri: No. But did Hiraba (Dada's wife) not pass away? Would the same not befall this body? What kind of karma was it that brought physical suffering?
Questioner: The karma of physical suffering.
Dadashri: People assume that I have been suffering, but I am not affected by any suffering. Nor does it affect the Tirthankaras. I felt no sorrow when Hiraba passed away. I am not affected by anything. People think that I experience grief and sorrow, but sorrow has never touched me for the last twenty years, not even for a moment. And that is precisely the Science that I am
I do not have any objection to your addiction, but you must do pratikraman for it. Confess to God that it is wrong for you to drink, you are sincerely sorry for the act and ask for the strength to not drink again. Do this much for your own sake.
People generally make matters worse by raising objections and criticizing the one who is an addict. All I have to say is that it does not matter how grave a mistake has been made, but you must do pratikraman for it.
(P.186)
Questioner: This morning, Dada, you said that before drinking tea you do pratyakhyan (I will never do it again)
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Questioner: Dada Bhagwan is immune to the karma of suffering, but it would affect Ambalalbhai?
Dadashri: No. Neither one is affected. That is the power of this Science. One would go insane if it affected him. Suffering is there because of the absence of knowledge. If the knowledge prevails, it would not affect even this file (Chandulal). It does not affect anyone. Suffering is where there is no knowledge. How could there be any suffering if you know this Gnan? Where Gnan is, there is no pleasure or pain. (P.190)
13. Liberation From Artadhyana and Raudradhyana
Questioner: It is said that two forms of adverse mediations are constantly occuring: artadhyan and raudradhyan. Please explain the difference between the two.
Dadashri: Artadhyana involves only you. It occurs when you suffer silently without anyone's knowledge. Raudradhyan is when you suffer and others also suffer because of for your internal
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A person who is not Self-Realized will experience adverse meditation of the type, which affects him only (artadhyana), because he identifies himself with his relative self. He believes that everything that is happening is happening to him. For example, he may start worrying about his daughter's marriage when she is only five years old, or the welfare of his family if he were to die. To worry, to be confused and puzzled about oneself is considered artadhyan. (P.190) Adverse meditation that affects others is raudradhyan. Here
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one blames others for his predicament. To think negatively of others or to cheat them or wish them harm, is all raudradhyan. For example a cloth merchant cheats his customers by stretching the material when he measures it. From the moment he decides to cheat his customers, he is guilty of raudradhyan. (P.191)
If a person has committed severe raudradhyan, he can turn it into artadhyan by doing pratikraman. If two people are guilty of the same kind of raudradhyan where they both have expressed a desire to kill someone, their inner state for violence is raudradhyan. If one of them goes home and sincerely repents for having such a destructive bhaav, his raudradhyan will become artadhyan while the other will continue his raudradhyan.
Through repentance, raudradhyan can be changed to artadhyan. With repentance one can be diverted from a birth in hell to a birth in the animal kingdom. With further intense repentance, one can turn raudradhyan into dharmadhyan. Actions and events may not change, but changes are taking place from within. (P.193) Questioner: When I remain separate and make 'Chandulal' do pratikraman, what is it called?
Dadashri: You are the pure Self now, but will this body not also need liberation? This body which is a complex of thoughts, speech and acts must be such that it does not hurt others. If you do not make it do pratikraman, it will not be free from errors. You need to engage it into the state of dharmadhyan. It cannot attain shukladhyan (the state of the Self), so you must engage it in dharmadhyan. You must make it do pratikramans continuously. Pratikraman must be done as many times as artadhyan occurs. Artadhyan occurs because of ignorance in your past life and for that you must do pratikraman. Artadhyan is an effect. (P.194)

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Questioner: Is it considered artadhyan or raudradhyan when we see faults in others?
Dadashri: Yes. A person will see faults in others if that is the kind of baggage he has brought with him from his previous life. The Self is faultless and does not see fault in others. He must do pratikraman when he sees faults in others. That is all he has to do. Everything he does in this life is the discharge of the baggage he has brought with him from his previous life. (P.199)
For instance, if someone knocks on your door in the middle of the night and when you check to see who it is, you see a friend of yours with a group of his friends, would you not open the door?
Questioner: Yes I would.
Dadashri: What would you tell them? Would you tell them to go away because it is so late?
Questioner: Of course not. How could I do that? Dadashri: Well then what would you say? Questioner: I would invite them in.
Dadashri: You would invite them in. You have been brought up with good moral values so you would invite them into your home. You carry away your sleeping child to make room on the sofa for them. You do all this but in your mind you are thinking what a nuisance it is that they come visiting at such an inappropriate hour. When you do this, it is raudradhyan, not artadhyan. Artadhyan means to suffer the consequences within only. But in this case, you starts additional adverse meditation, and blame your guests for the problem. This is the spoiling of your internal bhaav towards your guests. You are blaming them for visiting you so late in the night
On the outside however, you continue your appearance of being cordial. After they are seated, you ask them if they would like some tea. Your friend says that they would prefer a simple hot meal instead. You now think to yourself, just wait until the wife hears this. She's going to stew you in the kitchen! She also starts raudradhyan.
What is the Lord's Agna? What should people who want liberation do? We live in a terrible time cycle that influences our bhaav negatively, so that in such circumstances it is natural to have a bhaav like, 'Why are they here at this hour?' All the prevailing circumstances in such a time, lead even the most noble of men to have such a bhaav.
Why are you creating such a cause from within, when on the outside you portray an image of graciousness? Your welcoming them nicely is an effect. Through your bhaav, however, you are sowing new seeds, which will give its effect in the next life. With your negative bhaav, you are creating a new account.
When faced with such a situation, you must ask God for forgiveness and admit your mistakes. Do not worry about changing anything, but as long as you do pratikraman and erase your mistakes, you will be doing the right thing for your next life.
These strange times will indeed pressure you to act in an ambiguous and contradictory manner. Even those who seem to have control over their senses fail in this respect. If you erase it with pratikraman, you will reap its benefits in the next life. (P.205)
Questioner: Within an hour I do at least twenty-five atikramans.
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14. Release From Bondage Of Inner Enemies
Questioner: If someone makes us very angry and we lash out, and then we continue to feel internal turmoil, should we do pratikramans more than once?
Dadashri: If you do pratikraman wholeheartedly and sincerely for a few times, everything will be resolved. For example, say, Dear Dada Bhagwan, A very grave fault has occurred. Severe anger has taken place. How much hurt must have resulted in the other person? I am sincerely repenting for this and asking for his forgiveness with you as my witness. I am sincerely asking for your forgiveness.
Questioner: When prolonged arguments have occured, the result within is a greater rift and distance from him. For the small disagreements, we do pratikraman several times. Can we do just one long pratikraman to cover everything? Or do we have to do individual pratikramans for each fault?
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Questioner: We become very angry with someone. Then we do instant pratikraman for this mistake. Does the effect of our anger continue to linger within that person or does it stop as soon as we do the pratikraman?
Dadashri: You should not concern yourself with what is happening within the other person. Just keep washing your 'clothes' and keep them clean. Besides, you have no control over your anger. You become angry even though you do not want to. Do you get angry?
Questioner: Yes. It happens.
Dadashri: Do not worry about that, but just continue to do pratikraman. Make 'Chandulal' do the pratikraman and he will handle the situation however it needs to be handled. If you become too concerned about it, you will ruin your task. Your task is to remain aware of the faults that happen. (P.220)
Questioner: When we are very angry with someone, we begin to talk negatively about him in his absence.
Dadashri: That is called kashaya. When you come under someone else's control, it is kashaya. You have come under the control of your inner enemies of anger, pride, attachment and greed. You realize that it is wrong to speak negatively about someone in his absence, but you do it all the same. Sometimes you will become aware of it and some times it will pass, unnoticed. You become aware of it sooner or later. This is can only happen if you were the knower of the fault when it was happening. The fact that you regret the event later, means that you were in fact aware

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Questioner: In my office, I have three to four secretaries. Despite multiple instructions on repeated occasions, they continue to make the same mistake. This results in my getting very angry and frustrated with them. What should I do?
Dadashri: You are now the pure Self, so how can you become angry? It is 'Chandulal' who feels the anger, so you should tell him, 'You have met Dada now. What reason is there for you to become so angry?'
Questioner: But my secretary does not improve at all. Unless I say something to her, she will not change.
Dadashri: You can tell 'Chandulal' that he can scold his secretary with equanimity. He should scold her in a make-believe manner. He can even tell her that if she continues to be inefficient, she risks losing her job.
Questioner: If I say that, she would feel hurt and you have said that we should not hurt anyone.
Dadashri: She would not feel hurt if you speak to her in a make-believe manner. In doing so, you do not consider the relative as real. Hence there is no ego involved in your words. She will become aware of her mistake and she will resolve to change. You can only hurt her if your intention is to hurt. (P.221)
If you remain the Knower and the Seer of the rage that occurs, it will leave without charging new causes. The atoms of rage will become cleansed and dissipate. You are obligated to do at least this much.
Questioner: Is the pratikraman we do after becoming angry, called purushaarth or parakram (heroic deed or great
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Dadashri: That is called purushaarth. It cannot be called
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Questioner: Then what is parakram?
Dadashri: Parakram is higher than purushaarth. This is certainly not parakram How can you call this parakram when you are nursing a burn with a healing ointment? You can say that it is parakram when you are the 'Knower' of it all, and also the knower of all that is happening within. Doing pratikraman is purushaarth. With continued pratikraman your verbal conflicts will decrease. Everything will decrease naturally. The ego is the first to go and then everything else will follow. Everything will fall into place and you will experience stillness from within. (P.222)
Pratikraman for those who are Self-realized, completely erases all karma because of the absence of the doer. When the doer is absent, only the effects of past karma are felt. People, who have not received the knowledge of the Self, suffer the effect because of the presence of the doer (ego). Their karmas may weaken a little by doing pratikraman, but they are not erased completely and they will have to suffer the consequences of the causal karmas, whereas for you, the karmas are destroyed altogether.
When you no longer see faults in anyone, know that you have attained the state of the state of stillness, the state of the Self even amidst the din of worldly life. This state in Akram Vignan is very different. Even while enjoying life's pleasures, one sees the world as flawless. (P231)
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take him three or four lifetimes to attain liberation. (P.232)
15. On The Path Of Cause Ahimsa Questioner: On the path of liberation, does pratikraman free one from all previous accounts?
Dadashri: Hmm... Yes.
Questioner: But what words do we to say when doing pratikraman?
Dadashri: Say, 'Every living beings that I have hurt in any way, please forgive me.'
Questioner: Each and every living being? Dadashri: Yes to each and every living being
Questioner: Does it include microorganisms like the ones present in air (vayukaya), water (jalkaya) and fire (tejokaya)?
Dadashri: It includes everything.
Questioner: What should we do if we kill something unknowingly?
Dadashri: Even when it is done in ignorance, once you become aware of your deed, you should feel remorse immediately. You should repent for it and do pratyakhyan. Beware that it does not happen again. This should be your goal. God had told us to be firm and resolute in our determination not to kill any living thing. Every morning when you begin your day, you must repeat this five times: "I do not wish to hurt a single living being through my mind, my speech or my body." You will lighten the burden of your responsibility because in reality you only have control over your intent. To hurt or not to hurt any living being is not in your hands as far as result is concerned.
(P.236)
Questioner: Do we still commit a sin if we hurt someone by accident?
Dadashri: What happens when you put your hand in the fire by accident?
Questioner: My hand would burn. Dadashri: Will a child not burn himself too? Questioner: Yes he would.
Dadashri: Even a child? You will not escape, whether you do something knowingly or unknowingly. (P.237)
Questioner: What happens to a person if he continues to kill mosquitoes, even after he has received Gnan?
Dadashri: You can say that such a person has spoilt his intent. That is not considered awareness of Gnan.
Questioner: Is that considered an intent of violence?
Dadashri: Not only that, but in doing so, he has reverted back to what he was before Gnan. If however, he were to do pratikraman, his bad karma would be erased.
Questioner: What if he keeps doing it repeatedly?
Dadashri: Even if he were to do it a hundred times over, by doing pratikraman, his bad karma would be erased.(P.237)
You should not have a single thought about killing. If you cannot tolerate the insects, take them outside. The Tirthankaras eliminated even the word 'kill' from common usage, because it is laden with risk. The thought kill' is laden with a lot of violent subatomic particles. Each an every atom of your body must be

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Questioner: Does cause violence (dravaya himsa) and effect violence (bhaav himsa) have the same consequences?
Dadashri: Cause violence cannot be seen it is subtle. Only effect violence is visible. It can be perceived through the mind, speech and body. If you have reverence for life, and you believe that no harm should come to any living being, then you are not held accountable for anything that happens to them, even if you kill something accidentally. Your compassion is all that is required. You must nevertheless repent and do pratikraman to eliminate any responsibility on your part.
(P.240) Questioner: I have read in your books that, “Through this mind, speech and body, let me not hurt-even in the slightest degree- any living entity." I am a farmer and I grow tobacco. While the plants are growing, I have to constantly pinch off the tender new leaves on their stalks. Would that not hurt the plant? Is that not a sinful act? We do this to thousands of our plants! How can we put an end to this sinful act?
Dadashri: You should feel remorse for the act. You should regret and feel "Why has this painful task fallen upon me?" That is all. You can continue with your work then. Internally you are repenting that it is not your wish to undertake such a disagreeable occupation.
Questioner: Yes, but are we still committing a sin?
were not aware of all this, you would not have been so reluctant to mutilate the poor plants. If you follow my advice, the responsibility becomes mine. I am taking on the responsibility for you. You can cast the plant aside, but at the same time, you should feel a deep remorse.
All farmers and crop owners are liable for their faults when they annihilate so many living organisms in the fields. Everyday they should earnestly pray to God and ask to be forgiven for their faults. I tell every farmer to take about five to ten minutes to repent in front of the Lord for this violence. They must do pratikraman because the work they are engaged in, involves so much violence. I show them how to do pratikraman.
Questioner: Is it enough to just say the prayer you mentioned earlier that no living being be hurt through the medium of this speech, thoughts and acts, in the morning?
Dadashri: It should be repeated five times every day, with the same internal focus as one has when counting money. Say it with the same concentration and say it aloud. (P.243)
16. Vengeance of Enmity Is Unbearable Questioner: Let us say that a relationship based on deep abhorrence and vengeance has occured. If we do not do any pratikraman, will we not have to meet the other person sooner or later to settle the account?
Dadashri: It has nothing to do with the other person. He does not have to settle anything. You will remain bound.
Questioner: But aren't we supposed to settle the account?
Dadashri: The fact that it has occurred means that you have become bound. So you must do pratikraman. Everything
Dadashri: Yes, it is a sin. But you must not concern yourself with that. Do not look at the sinful act. You just have to be committed to the decision that things should not be the way they are. Stay with the conviction that you would rather be employed doing something other than tobacco farming. Before, when you

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heals with pratikraman, which is why you have been given this weapon.
(P.247) Questioner: When we do pratikraman, we get rid of our bitter feelings of vengeance, but what about the other person? What if he still feels animosity towards us?
Dadashri: What did it matter to Lord Mahavir when those around him felt so much attachment towards him? Some even hated him. Nothing affects the Vitarag. A Vitarag goes around without putting oil on his body. Nothing of the world will stick to them. Others spread oil over their body before going outside. They will undoubtedly become covered with the dirt and dust of the world.
Questioner: There is animosity between myself and another person. There has been a lot of attachment and consequent abhorrence between us. While I have managed to get rid of my animosity, the other person still continues to harbor deep vengeance. Does this mean that in my next life, he will come to settle the account? After all, he is the one perpetuating the abhorrence.
wait before making another attempt to put out the fire. These fireworks of life will keep exploding. Such is the worldly life.(P.251)
If someone were to insult me and do me wrong, I would still help him and continue to give him protection. A man once came to challenge me, I told everyone around me that they should not have a single negative thought towards him and if they did, they should do pratikraman, because after all he is a good man but he was under the control of his internal enemies (kashaya). If he were under the control of the Self, he would never have spoken the way he did. A person, who succumbs to his internal enemies, has to be forgiven, for he does not have the support of the Self. When someone becomes the victim of the internal enemies and becomes angry, you must remain calm or else everything will be ruined.
To be controlled by internal enemies means to be swayed by the effects of the karma of your past life. Everything unfolds according to the effects of past karma.
(P.255) 17. Removal Of The Root Cause Of Opinions
It is you who must know how to respond to the person who comes to you, whatever his inner intent; be it good or bad. Do not bother with him if his prakruti (innate nature) is awkward and difficult. Just let him be. If you know that it is his nature to steal, and you have been watching him steal for the last ten years, should you trust him if he begs for your forgiveness? You can tell him that you do not have any bad feelings towards him and that he has your forgiveness. But that is as far as you can go with such a person. You cannot afford to place trust in him or become involved with him. On the other hand, if you were to become his friend, then it would be wrong not to trust him, or become suspicious about him based on your previous opinions. Frankly you should
Dadashri: With pratikraman, his animosity towards you will lessen. With each pratikraman, a layer of karma is shed. Karma come in layers, just like the numerous layers of an onion. You will have to do as many pratikramans as the number of layers you have caused. Do you understand?
(P.249) Questioner: What should we do when, while doing pratikraman, atikraman occurs simultaneously?
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not associate with him, and if you do, there should not be any prejudice towards him. Just keep in mind that whatever happens is correct.
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Dadashri: Then you should ask for forgiveness. You must ask for forgiveness from whomever you have a negative opinion about.
Questioner: Is it okay to have good opinions?
Dadashri: Do not give any opinions at all. If you do, you must erase them. You have the necessary infallible tools at your disposal: alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan. (P.258) Questioner: How do we get rid of our strong opinions?
Dadashri: They will begin to disappear from the very moment you decide you want to be rid of them. If they are very stubborn, you must work on them for several hours each day. They too will disappear. After you attain Self-realization, you come into purusharth dharma (your True religion - the religion of the Soul). This dharma gives you extraordinary strength to overcome the most difficult of obstructions. But first you must realize the cause behind the obstacles and then you must do pratikraman for (P.259)
it.
The most important thing is to guard against forming any new opinions. This is where you need to be most cautious. Nothing else matters. The awareness of the worldly life tends to formulate opinions, even before you see something or someone, and these must be destroyed before they take root. You must exercise extreme caution with regards to opinions. Nevertheless you will bind opinions, but they should be immediately destroyed. Prakruti
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Dadashri: To eliminate them, you must tell yourself, or others that you have formed such an opinion about this person, and that the opinion is completely wrong and that you should not have any opinion about him. When you declare this to yourself, you will become free from it. (P.260)
Without pratikraman, your opinions will remain and you will stay bound to your faults.
Opinions have formed the mind. I never have any opinions about anyone. My initial thought about a person when I first meet him never changes. If I catch someone stealing, I do not jump to the conclusion that he is a thief, because I am aware that it is his circumstances that lead him to steal. People would immediately label him a thief if they caught him stealing. They would not take his circumstances into account. To them, it would be immaterial whether or not he has a history of stealing or whether his circumstances have forced him to steal. I would only call a person a thief, if he were a thief forever. My opinion about a person does not change, once it is made. Until now I have not changed my opinion about anyone. (P.262)
After you become self-realized, it is your obligation to make 'Chandulal' the relative self, pure. If the body complex could express its feelings it would say:
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with your inner intents. I had neither bones, nor blood, nor pus. I was absolutely pure. You have defiled me to such a degree. Unless you make me pure as well, you will not attain final liberation.(P.265)
18. He Who Conquers Sexual Impulses is The King of Kings
Questioner: Once a seed of sexuality is sewn will it not flourish into a tree?
Dadashri: When the seed is sown, it will result in an effect. If the seed does not get the necessary support for firm growth in this life, then it can have no effect in the next life. That is why I tell people who have a tendency to delve in sexuality to fast on Sundays and to constantly see their faults related to sex and wash them off with pratikraman. This may need to be done repeatedly until one is free from the internal effects of sexual impulses. If this is done in the confines of an Agna, then it will help tremendously. (P.272)
For now you must be extremely cautious about where your eyes wander. There was a time when people used to gouge out their eyes if they looked upon someone with lustful intentions. That is sheer foolishness; you are not to do that. If it happens to you, you must simply avert your eyes and if it happens again, then do pratikraman. Do not forsake even a minute's worth of pratikraman in this matter. Faults associated with your eating and drinking habits are inconsequential as compared to those of sexuality. Sex is the worst disease for the one who wants freedom from worldly life. Worldly life bondage exists because of sexuality.
You attain birth as a human only when you take what is rightfully yours. If you violate this rule you will be paving your way into the animal kingdom.
Questioner: We have all taken something, which has not
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Dadashri: You must do pratikraman for that. The Lord will still save you. You can still go into the derasars (Jain temple) and repent. As long as you are alive, you must continue to repent for enjoying things that were forbidden to you. Repent as long as you remain in this body. (P.274)
Questioner: Dada you have said that seventy percent of the human beings here, will reincarnate in the animal kingdom. This perturbs me. What hope do we have?
Dadashri: There is very little hope for most human beings, but if you are cautious...
Questioner: We are talking about those who have acquired Self-Realization (mahatmas).
Dadashri: Nothing in this world can touch any mahatma who follow my Agnas.
I warn people to be as cautious as they can, because through pratikraman there is still a way out.
If you were to write a letter to someone in an angry mood and you even curse the reader over and over again in your letter, your letter will offend the reader. If however, you write a foot note with an apology and explain your angry frame of mind because of a quarrel with your wife, would he not be considerate and forgiving? Likewise all faults committed in life so far are erased if pratikramans are done before leaving this body. You must ask for forgiveness from whomever you consider as your God. If not, you can come to me for forgiveness and I will forgive you.
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Chandulal behaves recklessly. Your life carries a tremendous responsibility with it. Ieven hesitate when I say that seventy percent of the human race is doomed! This is the final assurance I give you in these terrible times. I am putting the weapon of pratikraman into your hands. With pratikraman you stand a chance of being saved. And if you do it according to my Agnas, you salvation will come sooner. You will have to endure the suffering of your mistakes, but not many.
If someone tells you that you have no sense and insults you in public and your spontaneous reaction is to want to bless him, you should know that your separation would always be there. At such a time of public insult, You are also aware that Chandulal is being scolded and not you.
(P.277) Normally during satsangs, I would invite Chandulal to come and sit in the front. On some days, I would not even acknowledge his presence. What is my intention? I know that he would feel rejected for having to sit in the back. I would continue to give him praise at one time and deflate him at another. By doing this, he would make more progress in Gnan and he would progress further. I employ different tactics with everyone for their progress in this Gnan, and it is different for each person. Getting rid of the weaknesses of the prakruti is very important, because how long can you go on keeping something that does not even belong to you?
All my actions are for the support and progress of Gnan only.
Questioner: You are right, there is no escape as long as the weaknesses of prakruti exists.
Dadashri: As for myself, it was this Gnan and Nature that helped me get rid of my prakruti. Yours will not go until I do it for
you as your nimit (instrument).
(P.277) 19. Addiction Of Compulsive Lying Questioner: Are we binding karmas when we tell lies?
Dadashri: Of course! But more than telling a lie, it is the intent to tell a lie that binds more karma. Telling lies is the effect of your past karmas. The actual charging of karma occurs because of one's internal intent and resolve to tell lies. Will this knowledge help you?
Questioner: One should stop telling lies.
Dadashri: No. One should let go of the opinion that one should tell lies. If you lie, you must repent for it. When you do this, you may not stop lying, but at least your opinion supporting lies will cease.
Repent for your lies by saying, "I am not going to lie from this day onwards. Lying is the greatest sin. Lying causes great pain. Telling lies will bind me. Please forgive, Lord." Once your opinion changes, you will ultimately stop telling lies.
20. Awareness While Speaking... The mind is not as much of a problem as the speech is, because the mind functions secretly, whereas speech can carve a hole in a person's heart and hurt him severely. You must ask for forgiveness from whomever you have hurt with your speech. You must recall each and every person and do pratikraman in his name.
Questioner: Can we expect be forgiven for all faults committed through our speech with pratikraman?
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pratikraman its residue will instantly disintegrate in the next life.
Doership is the support on which karma are bound. Now that you are no longer the doer, no new karma will be bound. The remaining karma from your past will bring forth their effects and then dissipate. (P.285)
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Questioner: If a person speaks while he is irritated would that be atikraman?
Dadashri: Of course it is an atikraman.
Questioner: What would happen if we hurt someone with our speech, but we do not do any pratikraman?
Dadashri: When you speak harshly, it will naturally hurt the other person. How can you be happy with hurting someone? Questioner: Do we bind karmas because of this?
Dadashri: Is it not against the spiritual law to hurt anyone? And by doing so, have you not violated the law? When you follow my Agnas, you are practicing dharma, so then why not do pratikraman? What is wrong in doing it? Ask for forgiveness and make a firm resolution that you will not make the same mistake again. Is there even a need for you to look for justice? If one understands the relative life as it really is, then one would understand justice. It is because of your own past accounts that your neighbor insults you. In the same token it is because of the other person's past account that you speak harshly with him, but because you want to be liberated, you have to do pratikraman. (P.286)
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Dadashri: You must not use what I say as an excuse to escape your faults. Under such circumstances you have to do pratikraman. If you say something hurtful to someone, you must do pratikraman. If you accept the other person's rude language, and understand that his speech is not under his control, but is dependent on other factors, then it should not affect you at all. (P.287)
Questioner: Would you be committing a sin if you told a lie for the sake of liberation?
Dadashri: Anything that you do for the Self is not considered a sin. Anything that is done for the body is considered a sin if it hurts others and it is a virtue if it helps others. When the intent is solely the salvation of the world, whatever deeds are done will not bind karma. However in the process, if you become instrumental in someone's suffering, pratikraman is necessary.
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Questioner: If we do not notice the effect of our pratikraman on the other person, does that mean that we are not doing it sincerely or is it because the other person has too many veils on his spirituality?
Dadashri: Do not concern yourself too much about the state of the other person. He may even be insane, who knows? You need to be sure that you are not instrumental in hurting him.
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Dadashri: If you hurt the person, you will surely have to amend the situation. That is indeed your responsibility. Life is not meant for hurting anyone.
Questioner: Even then, if the matter cannot be settled to his satisfaction, how much of it is my responsibility?
Dadashri: If you can meet with the person face to face and apologize with your eyes, you should do so. However, if he taunts you instead, you should realize that you are not dealing with a noble person. You must still resolve it, but it need not be in his presence. If while asking for his forgiveness in person, he throws it back in your face, understand that you have made a mistake, but because he is not a noble person, you should not bow or belittle yourself to him.
(P.290) Questioner: If you have good intentions, do you still have to do pratikraman?
Dadashri: You must do pratikraman because of the hurt to the other person. If someone tells you, 'Oh, just look at how that woman is scolding her husband', you have to do pratikraman for having witnessed the event. You must do pratikraman for everything that comes before you. Your intentions may be as good as gold, but what good are they? Good intentions are not enough. Even though my own intentions are good. I still have to do pratikraman. Pratikraman has to be done for any mistake one makes. Everyone who has acquired Self-Realization has the intent of the salvation of the world, but that is simply not enough. Pratikraman must be done first and foremost. When you get stains on your clothes, do you not wash them off? Likewise these too are considered stains.
Questioner: If someone is doing something wrong and we caution him, what do we do if our speech hurts him?
Dadashri: You may be faced with the need to caution him, but because it is done through your ego, you have to do pratikraman.
Questioner: If I do not caution him, will he not get worse?
Dadashri: You have to caution him, but you must know how to do so. If you do not know how to caution him the right way, you will end up hurting him and therefore you must do pratikraman. When you caution him, he will indeed feel hurt, but if you keep doing pratikraman, within a few months your speech will begin to sound pleasant to him.
The caution that is associated with ego will hurt and this is the basis of flawed worldly interactions.
(P.291) Whenever I make fun of someone, I have to do pratikraman for that also. I am not excused from that.
Questioner: Yes but that's just joking around. Surely there is no problem with that.
Dadashri: No, but even then I have to do pratikraman. It is not so necessary for you, but it is imperative for me. If I did not do pratikraman, then the words from this tape-recorder (speech from the Gnani) would not come out as precise. (P.293)
I too used to make fun of all sorts of people, from the ordinary to very prominent and successful ones. Extremely intelligent people have a tendency to make fun of others. Is such an ego not futile? Is that not misuse one's intellect? It is a sign of misuse of intellect to make fun of others.
Questioner: What are the consequences of making fun of others?
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him or her. You misuse your intelligence when you make fun of others. You took advantage of your higher intellect to overcome his lesser intellect in making fun of him. (P.295)
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Questioner: How can we stop this tape from recording? How can we stop from creating new causes for speech that will hurt others?
Dadashri: By not creating any vibrations of any kind in speech, you will not make a new tape. You must simply observe everything. But that is not so easy because even this is a machine (the relative self) and furthermore, it is not under your control. That is why I am showing you an alternate way. If the words have expressed and you do pratikraman immediately, the taping of an effect in the next life will be erased. Pratikraman is the tool used for erasing. With pratikraman there will be a change in your speech in one or two lifetimes and your negative speech will stop altogether.
Questioner: After attaining Self-realization, pratikramans are occuring constantly.
Dadashri: Therefore you are not accountable. If you do pratikraman for whatever you say, you will no longer be liable. If you have to speak sternly, do so but without any attachment or abhorrence, and do pratikraman vidhi immediately.
Questioner: What is the pratikraman vidhi?
Dadashri: For example if you hurt Chandulal, then you have to invoke the one who is free from, thoughts, speech and actions; bhav karma, dravya karma and no karma; of 'Chandulal (or the name of the person you hurt) and all illusions attached to that name. This One is the 'Shuddhatma Bhagwan' (the pure Soul). Then say, 'Dear Shuddhatma Bhagwan, I have spoken in a harsh manner and that is a fault of mine. I am repenting for this mistake.
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I am asking for your forgiveness. I am resolving not to repeat this mistake. Please give me the strength not to repeat the mistake again'.
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Think of Dada (The fully enlightened Lord within The Gnani Purush) or Shuddhatma Bhagwan when you do your pratikraman. First do alochana, which means that you are confessing your mistake. Then do pratikraman, which is the actual asking for forgiveness that will cleanse your mistakes, and lastly do pratyakhyan, which is your resolve never to repeat the mistake. (P.297)
Questioner: Will our speech improve in future, after we do pratikraman?
Dadashri: It will indeed be something to see after you do pratikraman. It is because of pratikraman that my speech is of the highest quality. It is because of pratikraman that this speech is above any controversy or dispute and accepted by all. Elsewhere all speech creates controversy. Purity in worldly interactions means there is no ego involved in any worldly interactions. Only such a person's speech is accepted by all. (P.298)
21. Faults Of The Prakruti Will Leave In This Way....
It is better to drink the poison of this satsang (company of the real), then to drink the nectar of the world. At least the poison of the satsang has pratikraman in it. I have ingested all the goblets of poison and have become Mahadev (Symbol of The Absolute). (P.299) Questioner: I think a lot about coming near you but I am unable to do so.
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satsang. You have to tell 'Chandubhai' to do pratikraman, so everything can be resolved quickly. Do pratikraman because you are not able to come. Do pratyakhan. Your mistakes (past life) prevent you from coming here, so make sure that you do not make the same mistake again.
Why is your current intent to come to me growing stronger? Coming events cast their shadows before. This is an indication of things to come. Indeed it is going to happen.
Questioner: How do I do pratikraman for all the worries that I have?
Dadashri: Do pratikraman in this way: "It is because of my ego that I worry. I am not the doer. So, Dada Bhagwan, please forgive me". You will have to do something, will you not? Questioner: Do we have to do pratikraman when we make comments about the weather?
Dadashri: No, pratikraman is needed only where there is attachment or abhorrence. If the soup is very salty, you do not need to do pratikraman. But do pratikraman for the person who made the soup. Pratikraman results in internal changes in the other person.
While urinating, if an ant should get carried away in the stream and drown, I do pratikraman. I always maintain my awareness. The fact that the ant drowns is a karmic effect, a discharge karma but why did my awareness falter at that time to cause the atikraman? Everyone is liable for such faults.
Whenever you read Dada's books, bow down to the book and ask Dada to give you the strength to read. If you forget to do so, then bow down twice and tell Dada that it is not your intention to forget, but because you did, you are asking for his forgiveness
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If you forget to do your vidhi (Dadashri's prescribed daily instructions) at the right time, do pratikraman and then do the vidhi.
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You must do the pratikraman for whatever atikraman you do during the process of discharge of your past karma. Should your actions hurt others, even though they are in a discharge form, you must do pratikraman for them. If you do something good for Dada or mahatmas, you do not have to do pratikraman. When you do something good for other people, you have to do pratikraman if doer ship was involved.
Questioner: When we do pratikraman does it reach the other person?
Dadashri: Yes, it reaches him. He will start to soften from within, whether he is aware of it or not. His attitude towards you will improve. Our pratikramans are very effective. There is tremendous power in pratikraman. If you do pratikraman for just one hour, you will observe the changes in the other person. But that will only happen if you have attained the Self. When you do pratikraman for the other person, not only will he not see your faults, but he will also begin to respect you. (P.301)
Questioner: Do we not charge new karmas by doing pratikraman?
Dadashri: If the Self becomes the doer then karmas will be charged. The Self does not do pratikraman, it is Chandubhai who does it and you the pure Self are the knower and the seer of it all.
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(P.302) Questioner: Pratikraman starts from the moment I wake up.
for such a fault. Sometimes the prakruti will speak the sentences of the pratikraman and sometimes it will not. It is like a gramophone. The record may play or it may not play. That is not considered an obstructive karma.
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Questioner: Despite making a firm resolution to settle all disputes with equanimity, why do disputes still continue?
Dadashri: In how many instances does this happen, a hundred or so?
Questioner: No, in just one.
Dadashri: Then the karma is very solid and strong (nikachit karma). And it is alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan that will wash away this type of karma. They will lighten the karma, and after that you will be able to remain the knower and the seer of the effect. You must do continuous pratikraman for this type of karma.
Dadashri: The soul within you has now become a pratikraman-Soul; the Pure Soul is still there, but before where it used to be a worldly soul, it has now become a pratikraman soul. Other people have kashay-souls. Not a single person (non Selfrealized) in this world is able to do pratikraman.
As you start doing instant pratikramans, you are purifying everything at the same time. When you do instant pratikraman against any atikraman, your mind and speech begin to purify.
Pratikraman is like planting a roasted seed. Roasted seeds do not grow, and new causes are not created.
Doing alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan is to review the entire day. The more of your faults you are able to see, the more aware you will be. That is why pratikraman must be done!
Questioner: Is it the fault of the prakruti that we are not able to do pratikraman or is it because of some obstacle causing karma?
Dadashri: It is the prakruti's fault, but that is not always the case. It does not matter if pratikraman is not done because of the prakruti, but the main thing is your inner intent. All you have to do is guard your intentions and nothing else. Everything else is immaterial. Do you wish to do pratikraman?
Questioner: Yes, absolutely.
Dadashri: In spite of this bhaav, if you are not able to do pratikraman, then it is the fault of the prakruti. You are not liable
With whatever force the karma became solid, a corresponding amount of repentance force will be needed for its pratikraman.
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Questioner: When we make a firm resolution with absolute sincerity that we do not want to make the same mistake again, are we likely to make that same mistake again? Is it under our control?
Dadashri: Yes it will happen again. For example, if I had a ball and I threw it once I throw that ball, it will not stop bouncing, even if I wish for it to stop. Throwing the ball was just one single action, but after throwing it, I say that I do not wish to throw it, and I tell the ball to stop bouncing, will it stop?

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(P.306) 22. Solution for Sticky Files Many people tell me that although they have tried to settle disputes with equanimity, they have failed. I tell them that it is not important for them to settle the matter. All they must do is to have the intention to settle with equanimity. Whether they manage to do so or not, the results are not dependent on them. If you remain within my Agnas, a lot of your work will be accomplished and if it does not, then that too is dependent on Nature. (P.308)
Questioner: No, it will not. Dadashri: Then what will happen? Questioner: It will bounce several times.
Dadashri: So it has gone out of my hands and into the hands of Nature. Nature will make it still. That is how all this is. All our mistakes fall into Nature's hands.
Questioner: Then what benefits are there in pratikraman, once it falls into Nature's hands?
Dadashri: Many benefits. Tremendous benefits Pratikraman has such an impact that if you do pratikraman towards someone, for one hour, it will bring about tremendous new and different changes within that person. But the person doing the pratikraman must have this Gnan. He himself must be pure. He has to have the experience of 'I am a Pure Soul (shuddhatma)'. Pratikraman will have a tremendous effect. Pratikraman is our biggest weapon
(P.305) If one has not taken this Gnan, the prakruti will be doing everything wrong throughout the day. But after Gnan, it will be on the right path. When you become upset with someone, you will begin to feel from within, that you should not be doing so, and that you must do pratikraman for having thoughts about hurting him. Before Gnan, all you would think about would be getting back at him in the worse possible way. And not only that, but the more you could hurt him, the better it would be.
The nature of human beings is such that they become their prakruti. When the prakruti does not improve, they give up. Do not concern yourself about improving the prakruti, at least improve your inner self. You are not responsible for whatever happens on the outside. This is all a Science. If you understand this much,
When you stop seeing faults in others, you will be liberated. If someone were to insult you, hurt you financially and even physically, and despite all this, you do not see any faults in him, that is when you will be free from the entanglements of this worldly life.
Have you stopped seeing faults in others?
Questioner: Yes Dada. I do pratikraman when I see faults in others.
Dadashri: The way to handle this is to have a firm resolve that 'I want to stay in Dada's Agnas', and then begin your day. Then do pratikraman for the times you have not been able to abide by the Agnas. Keep everyone happy at home by settling any conflicts with them, with equanimity. In spite of doing this, if they are still unhappy with you, then understand that it is because of your past accounts and simply be an observer of everything. You have made this decision only today, so win them over with love. You will notice that everything will start to settle down. Still you should only believe so, when those at home certify that you are free from faults. Ultimately they are all on your side. (P.312)

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Questioner: The results we get from doing pratikraman are based on the principle that by seeing the pure Self in the other person, we decrease our negative bhaav (attachment and abhorrence) towards him. Is that correct?
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Dadashri: Your negative bhaavs will be destroyed. All this is for your own benefit only. It has nothing to do with the other person. The only reason to see the pure Self in others is that you remain in your pure state and awareness.
Questioner: So if someone has a negative bhaav towards us, will it become less by seeing the Self in him?
Dadashri: No that will not happen. It will only lessen if you do pratikraman. That does not happen simply by seeing the Soul in him, but it does through your pratikraman.
Questioner: Does the pratikraman have any effect on
him?
Dadashri: Yes, it does have an effect. In the process of pratikraman when you see the pure Soul in the other person, you are free from all opinions, good or bad. Although the benefits may not be so apparent in the beginning, they will gradually increase. This is because you have never seen the other person as the pure Soul before. You have only seen him as either a good person or a bad person, but never as the pure Soul. (P.318)
Even a tiger will do whatever you command it, if you were to do its pratikraman. There is no difference between a tiger and a human. The difference is in the vibrations you emit. It is your vibrations that will affect the tiger. As long as you believe in your mind that a tiger is a violent animal, the tiger will remain violent. If you are aware that the tiger is the Soul, then it will have no violence with you. Everything is possible.
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You must understand how effective your bhaav can be in causing an effect that can be destructive. If a monkey destroys all the mangoes on your mango tree, then in the moment of frustration you may say that it would have been better to chop off the mango tree altogether. Beware of the inner intent behind what you say. Words spoken in the presence of the Self do not go to waste. If you are careful not to cause a negative effect, then everything will be fine. Everything around you is what you have created. From this moment onwards, stop any vibrations or thoughts towards others. If a thought arises, wash it off by doing pratikraman. That way the entire day will pass without any vibrations. If you can get through the whole day this way, it is enough. That by itself is a great achievement towards liberation. (P.319)
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After this Gnan, the newer events of your life will not become impure. The old phases however, will have to be made pure by seeing them or dealing with them with equanimity. This equanimity is the nature of the Vitarag. New phases will not become impure. They will remain pure. It is the older phases, which are impure and will need to be purified. Remaining within my Agnas, and maintaining equanimity can accomplish that.
Questioner: Dada how do the different karma created before this Gnan, come to an end?
Dadashri: As long as you are living, you can wash them away by repenting. But a few will still remain, and those that remain will become very weak, so in your next life they will fall away by merely touching them, like a burnt rope.
Questioner: Before Gnan, if we had bound a karma for hell, will we still go to hell?
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hell can wash away the effect of the karma if pratikramans are done throughout this life. If you put a disclaimer on your letter before you mail it stating that your mind was unstable when you wrote the letter, then the contents will have no value.
Questioner: Will intense repentance destroy the causal seed of bondage in hell?
Dadashri: Yes they will be destroyed. Our pratikraman has tremendous power. Even some very strong karma effects are lessened. If you put 'Dada' as your witness it will be very effective.
There will be rebirth on account of your karma. You may have one or two more lives to go to finish off your past karma, but after that you have no choice but to go to Simandhar Swami, the current living tirthankar. Accounts from your previous lives that are sticky, will all be washed away. This is a Science of absolute justice, accurate justice and pure justice. It is as precise and accurate as the scales of an honest goldsmith. There is no room for inexactness here.
Questioner: Does the force of karma become weak by doing pratikraman?
Dadashri: Yes of course! Not only that, but you will be able to accomplish everything quicker. (P.320) Questioner: How does one ask for forgiveness from someone who is no longer living?
Dadashri: Although they are no longer living, you still have the memory of their face and you still have their photographs, you can do their pratikraman. Even if you cannot remember their face, but you remember their names, you can still do pratikraman through their name. It reaches them. (P.321)
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23. When The Mind Goes Haywire....
Mahatmas have good and bad intentions, but it all falls under discharge karma, not charge karma. Anger, pride, attachment, greed, abhorrence and all good and bad intentions are all discharge karma, which must be dealt with equanimity. These karmas will only dissipate through pratikraman. There is no other way.
Questioner: Sometimes when I feel insulted, I may not say anything but my mind will revolt and retaliate.
Dadashri: We are not concerned with what happens at that time, you may even get into a physical fight. It all depends on how strong one has grown in this Gnan. If you have complete inner strength in this Gnan, then even your mind would not revolt. Whenever you revolt through mind, speech or even your body, you must do pratikraman for all three, because they are your weaknesses.
Questioner: Do we have to do pratikraman for our
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Dadashri: As far as your thoughts are concerned, all you have to do is observe them. There is no pratikraman for thoughts. However, if you have bad thoughts for someone, then pratikraman is necessary. Thoughts about cows and buffaloes and anything else just disappear in the presence of Gnan. If you observe them with awareness, they will just pass. They only need to be observed. There is no need for pratikraman for these.
Suppose when you come to satsang and you see everyone standing around, you may think to yourself, what are all these people standing around here for? For such a negative thought, you should do pratikraman right away. (P.323) Questioner: Should we do pratikraman for the effects of

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Dadashri: Pratikraman is for that which happens within. Questioner: Is it for our thoughts or for our intent?
Dadashri: For your intent. Behind every thought there is always an intent. If there has been atikraman, then pratikraman should be done. Atikraman is when you have bad thoughts. You may have a bad thought for this lady sitting here, so you should turn it around by saying to yourself, 'Think good thoughts about her'. You may think that this person sitting here is useless. Why do such a thought come to you? You have no right to assess anyone's worth. If you must say anything at all, then say that everyone is good. By saying this you will not be liable for the karma, but if you say that this person is worthless, then that is atikraman. For this, you must do pratikraman. (P.324)
When you tolerate something that you dislike, with a pure mind, you will become vitarag.
Questioner: What is a pure mind?
Dadashri: A pure mind is one where you do not have any negative thoughts for your opponents. What does that mean? That means that you do not bite' your nimit, (lash out at the person who is instrumental in the dissipation of your negative karmas). If you have bad thoughts, then you should immediately wash them away by doing pratikraman.
Questioner: A pure mind comes in the final stage, does it not? Will we have to continue doing pratikraman until it becomes
Where the mind is impure, pratikraman is required.
You have to keep the account book of the pure Self, clean. So at night before you go to bed, tell Chandulal to do pratikraman for whomever he saw faults in during the day. He must keep his books clean for everyone. Any negative bhaav will be purified through pratikraman. There is no other solution. Even if an income tax officer were to come and harass you, you should not see any faults in him. Tell 'Chandulal' that he has to see the whole world as faultless, before he goes to bed.
(P.327) Questioner: Should pratikraman be done in the presence of the other person?
Dadashri: There is no problem if the pratikraman is done later on.
Questioner: If I have talked negatively about you or hurt you, should I come to you personally and do pratikraman?
Dadashri: If you can do it personally that would be good and if that is not feasible then the pratikraman you do later on, brings about the same results.
What I am saying is that if you have a negative thought about Dada, you should continue doing pratikraman. People are not to be blamed for their hostile personalities. People today have hostility in them. It is characteristic of this time cycle for all living beings to be hostile. All the non-hostile ones have passed away. There are still, however many elevated souls who can improve.
(P.328) If you have negative thoughts about me, you should do pratikraman. The human mind is capable of seeing faults of even a Gnani Purush. What will the mind not do? The mind that has been burnt will bum others. An unhappy man spreads unhappiness.
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Questioner: Those who have departed cannot do anything for others. So if you say anything negative about Lord Mahavir, does it reach him?
Dadashri: Yes it reaches him, but he does not accept it, and it is returned to you along with double the repercussions. So you have to ask for forgiveness for yourself. Keep asking for forgiveness until you forget the words you had uttered. If you have said anything negative about Mahavir, you have to keep asking for forgiveness and it will be immediately erased. Your arrows will reach him but he does not accept them. (P.329) 24. Gnan Rescues Those Drowning In The Ocean
Of Life Questioner: Can one see one's past faults by remembering them?
Dadashri: Past faults can really only be seen by focusing the awareness of The Self on a specific topic such as anger, greed, and pride etc, and not by recalling through memory. You have to work hard to try and recall them. They need to be recalled because they have become obscured. If you had some problems with Chandulal and you did his pratikraman, Chandulal's presence will be there. You need to apply this awareness. In this path of Akram it is not necessary to draw upon memory. Recollection of events is dependent upon memory. Whatever events come to mind spontaneously, are there for you to do pratikraman. They come so that you can purify them.
Have you not already made the decision that you do not want any worldly things when you say in your prayers, 'I do not want any temporary things of this life except for the experience of the absolute Self"? Despite this why do you keep remembering certain things? For that you must continue your pratikraman.
Understand that in spite of doing pratikraman, if you remember things, it means that they are still pending and require more pratikraman.
(P.330) It is because of your attachment and abhorrence that you remember things. If they did not come into your mind, then you would forget the mistakes you have made. Why do you not remember the people you met in passing but you remember the loved ones who are now dead? It is because you still have some pending attachment and doing pratikraman will dissolve this attachment.
Desires come to you because you have not done pratyakhyan and past events come to your mind because you have not done pratikraman.
Questioner: Is pratikraman to be done for the ownership claimed?
Dadashri: For ownership you have to do pratyakhyan. For the faults there is pratikraman.
Questioner: Even after doing pratikraman, if the same faults come to mind, does it mean that we are not free of those faults?
Dadashri: The faults are layered like an onion. As you peel the outer layer of an onion, there is yet another layer beneath. These faults have a lot of layers. So with each pratikraman you do, you shed one layer. In this way when you do a hundred or more pratikramans, the fault will eventually go. Some faults will go away after five pratikramans and some may require more. A fault requires as many pratikraman as the number of layers it has. The longer it takes for pratikraman, the bigger and heavier the fault.
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Dadashri: When it comes to your mind, you should understand that the event is still very sticky, and pratikramans will free you from it.
Questioner: Should we do pratikraman as many times as it comes to mind?
Dadashri: Yes, that many times. You should keep the intent of pratikraman. For them to come to mind requires time. Do you remember the faults in the night?
Questioner: They come depending upon certain
circumstances.
Dadashri: Yes, because of the circumstances.
Questioner: And what about desires?
Dadashri: A desire is where your internal tendencies become evident. The intent that you had previously made is now surfacing again, and so here you need to do pratyakhyan.
Questioner: Dada, during such times you tell us to say, "It should not be like this, and this is not mine" Is this what we have to say every time?
Dadashri: You have to do pratyakhyan in the following manner, "This is not mine. I am surrendering every thing. I had invited all these things in ignorance. But today they are not mine so I am surrendering them. I am surrendering them through my mind, speech and body. Now I do not want anything. I had invited this happiness (temporary, relative) in my ignorant state. Today this happiness is not mine and therefore I am surrendering
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The whole intention behind Akram Vignan is to do 'shooton-sight' pratikraman. This is the foundation upon which Akram Vignan stands. In reality no one is making mistakes. No mistakes are being made by anyone. If you become instrumental in hurting someone, then recall that person's pure Soul, which is completely separate from that person's dravyakarma (karmas that come into effect), nokarma (neutral karmas), and bhaavkarma (karmas that charge more karma) and do pratikraman.
Questioner: But should you say all this when you do pratikraman?
Dadashri: No, it is not necessary. Make it short. Make a phone call to the pure Soul of the opponent and say, 'I have made this mistake, please forgive me'. (P.334)
And moreover, you should do pratikraman for all the people in your home. Do pratikraman for your father, mother, brother and sister everyday, even for all the extended family members, because these are the people with whom you have a very sticky account.
So if you do pratikraman for your family for one hour, starting from everyone close to you to the extended family and going back, two to three generations, recall all of them and do pratikraman, you will destroy your most intense sins. Their minds will purify towards you. You must do this for all your close relatives. Recall them all. If you cannot sleep at night, you should do pratikraman in this manner. When you start doing pratikraman in this manner, the film will continue. When that happens, you will feel tremendous joy, so much so, that it will overflow.
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pure Self, and there is no interference from anything.
Who does the pratikraman? Chandulal does the pratikraman. And for whom does he do the pratikraman? He does pratikraman for his whole family. He recalls all his extended family to do pratikraman. The Self is the witness of the process; it does nothing. There is no other interference, and therefore the focused awareness is also pure.
(P.335) Many years ago I once made some people do pratikraman, in my presence. It was pratikraman for faults related to sexual thoughts and acts. They all went into it so deeply that they could not stop. The pratikraman continued even when they went home. Even during sleep, and while eating, their pratikraman would not stop. This continued to take place day and night. Then I had to stop it for them. Even when they wanted to stop the pratikraman, it would not stop. Once this machinery of pratikraman is set in motion, it will continue on its own.
You have to tell Chandulal to continue doing pratikraman for the entire family and all the people he has hurt. Chandulal must do pratikraman for the countless lives before, in which he had committed faults related to attachment, abhorrence, and matters of sexuality. Taking one person at a time, the pratikraman must be done in the way I have shown you. After that, with the same focused awareness, pratikraman must be done for the neighbors too. After doing this, will your burden lessen.
If you hurt someone and he makes a note of it, then your mind will not find true rest until the effect of your hurt is erased by your pratikraman towards him.
I myself have done this with the entire world, and that is why I am free. As long as you see faults in me, I do not have peace. So whenever I do pratikraman in this manner, everything
gets erased.
(P.340) Do lots and lots of pratikraman, for all the people you have harassed and hurt. Whenever you have any free time, take an hour or so, and recall each and everyone and do their pratikraman. This is a sure way for the Gnan to grow.
(P.341) After this, with Dada Bhagwan as your witness, take all the religions, and their religious heads, and do pratikraman for any negative comments or criticisms you have made, instigated others to make, in this life, past life, past calculable lives, and past infinite lives. Ask for strength not to repeat any such transgression against them, even in the slightest degree.
(P.342) Before Gnan, I had a very strong ego. I used to criticize people and was disrespectful to them, but also at the same time I used to be full of praise for some. I would criticize one and praise another. After 1958, when I became a Gnani, I told A. M. Patel, 'Wash away all the contempt you had towards others. Put some soap to it and wash it off.' After that I recalled each and everyone I had treated with contempt including the neighbors, uncles, aunts and the in-laws, the entire lot. I had treated so many people with contempt. I washed off all the acts of contempt for everyone.
Questioner: Did you do pratikraman in your mind or did you ask for forgiveness personally?
Dadashri: I told Ambalal that he had done a lot of things that were wrong. I told him that I could see them all and that he should wash away all his wrong deeds.
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"Dear Shuddhatma Bhagwan, who is completely separate from the mind-speech and body of Chandubhai, and his bhaavkarma, dravyakarma and nokarma. Dear Shuddhatma Bhagwan of Chandubhai, I am asking for forgiveness for all errors committed towards Chandubhai. I am asking this in the presence of Dada Bhagwan. I will never repeat such faults again."
Do the pratikraman in this manner and you will notice a change on the other person's face. You do the pratikraman here, and the changes will be taking place over there within him.
My books became clean only after 'we' (file # 1 doing pratikraman under the guidance of the Self) did so much washing For countless lives we have done this and that is why finally I am free and liberated. I am showing you the way also, so free yourself quickly.
You should do pratikraman, so that you can become free from the liability of these faults. In the beginning after Gnan, people used to attack me and question my integrity, but later they got tired of doing this, because I never retaliated. If I had retaliated they would have continued to attack me. This world will not let anyone attain liberation, so you should be careful, and conduct yourself with awareness avoiding any conflicts.
At least try doing the pratikraman, and then witness the changes in the people in your household. There will be magical changes, magical effects.
(P343) As long as there is a tendency to look at faults in others, there will be no peace of mind. When you do pratikraman all the faults will be erased. You should do pratikraman for every file that has become sticky due to attachment and abhorrence. Keep the focused awareness and then proceed to do pratikraman to clear
everything. Files due to attachment definitely need pratikraman.
If you were sleeping on a nice comfortable mattress but there was grit in it, would it not bother you until you took it out? In the same manner, pratikraman is called for, when things bother you. Pratikraman needs to be done only where there is an internal signal of conflict. And whatever bothers the other person; he too will do the same! Everyone has different kinds of pratikraman.
(P.347) If you have done atikraman towards anyone, then you should do pratikraman all day in his name. When both parties do pratikraman, they can become free of the faults much quicker. If you do five thousand pratikramans or more and so does the other person, then things can be resolved faster. However, if the other person does not do any pratikraman, you will have to do ten thousand pratikramans in order to be free
Questioner: It bothers me if something like this remains pending
Dadashri: Do not carry around such a burden. Instead, sit down one day for an hour and do pratikraman collectively for all your faults. Towards whomever you did atikraman, sit down for one hour and wash off all the faults. Do not go about with a feeling of a weight of an unfinished task.
(P.348) Such knowledge about pratikraman has never before been disclosed to the world. The world has never read or heard of such knowledge before.
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pratikramans that takes a couple of hours a session, a large portion of your major faults are erased. Then the pratikraman process is repeated, this time recalling the more subtle faults and these are also cleared. Then the process is repeated again and this time even smaller faults are wiped out. Thus practically all faults are wiped off.
In the two-hour session of pratikraman all the mistakes of this life are washed off. When you make a firm decision not to repeat such faults again, that is considered pratyakhyan.
When you sit down to do pratikraman, you will experience the 'nectar' from within and you will feel very light.
Are you doing pratikraman? Do you feel light (a sense of freedom) when you do? Are you doing pratikraman intensely? Recall everyone and do his or her pratikraman. Start digging and looking for your faults and do your pratikraman. As you start, your faults will begin to come into your recollection and you will begin to see everything. If you kicked someone eight years ago, you will see that incident too. How do these events come into your recollection, when otherwise they do not come even if you try to recall them? The moment you begin your pratikraman, a link is established. Have you tried even once, to do pratikraman for your whole life? Questioner: Yes, once I had.
(P.352)
Dadashri: Before, you could not see any mistakes at all, could you? The mistakes you see now are your tangible mistakes. You will see even beyond this level.
Questioner: Are we talking about the subtle, very subtle and extremely subtle levels...?
Dadashri: You will continue to see your mistakes.(P.353)
When you do pratikraman for your entire life, you are neither in the state of liberation nor are you in this worldly life. When you do pratikraman, you are actually watching a documentary of your past. During this time there are no interruptions from your mind, your intellect, your chitor yourego. Your entire internal mechanism of mind, intellect, chit and ego is silent. During that time only pragna (direct force of the Self) is working. The pure Self is not doing anything.
When mistakes are made, and they are not recognized in alert awareness, they become concealed, and build up in layers. These layers continue to grow and at the time of death, a summation of all these mistakes takes place in the final hour.
It is because of the light of Gnan that you are presently able to see the faults committed in the past; it has nothing to do with memory
Questioner: Does pratikraman have any effect on the Soul (Self)?
Dadashri: No effect whatsoever can touch the Self. There is no effect on the Self. There is absolutely no doubt that the Self exists. It reigns beyond the boundaries of memory, and that is why you are able to go beyond the memory. The Self is a storehouse of infinite strength. This strength is called pragna shakti, which can break through all the layers from the core of the earth.
Dadashri: Still when you come to see the roots of your major mistakes then, you will experience a lot of bliss. If you do not feel bliss when you do pratikraman, it means that you have not learnt to do it properly. A person is not human when atikraman occurs but he does not feel any sorrow or remorse.
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By doing pratikraman, you become filled with a sense of freedom and that freedom is freedom from all attachment and abhorrence. All animosity is naturally broken. And it does not matter if the other person is not there for your pratikraman. Your pratikraman does not require his endorsement. When you committed the faults, no witness was present. You commit most of the faults against people in their absence anyway. In essence although their very presence has precipitated these faults, they have not endorsed them. The endorsement came from your internal attachment and abhorrence.
Some day if you are sitting alone, and you start to do pratikraman, the experience of the Self will begin to solidify from within. The taste will arise. This is the experience of the Self.
(P.354)
When you begin to see everyone in your family as faultless, then you should know that your pratikraman is true. People definitely are faultless; the whole world is faultless. You are bound by your own mistakes, not by theirs. When you understand this, you will be able to resolve everything.
(P.355) Questioner: It is absolutely resolved in my mind that this whole world is faultless.
And this is evident in my conduct. You however, do not have the same experience. You still see faults in the world. You have to do pratikraman when someone does something wrong to you, and that is because you see him as being at fault.
Questioner: Does atikraman ever occur if one remains in the awareness of one's Pure Self?
Dadashri: Yes, you can have atikraman as well as pratikraman.
If you feel that you did not stay in your pure awareness and went off on the wrong track and started seeing the world with the eyes of Chandulal, then you should do pratikraman for loosing the awareness of the Self. Taking the wrong path is a waste of time and energy, but there are no repercussions from this because it does not hurt others and so pratikraman is not necessary. You still have one more life to go, so you need not worry about this for the time being. But those who absolutely want to remain in their awareness should do pratikraman.
(P.356) I rarely ever use this vidhi. In Aurangabad, I did a vidhi to wash away faults of countless past lives of mahatmas. It was a vidhi of one hour of pratikraman in which everyone's ego was dissolved. I used to do this vidhi of pratikraman once a year. There were about three hundred people or more that wept intensely after the vidhi. All their internal enemies were dissipated. Even the husbands prostrated at the feet of their wives and asked for forgiveness. The bondage of so many lives was washed away.
There in Aurangabad, a major vidhi had to be performed every year, to purify the minds of mahatmas and their relative selves. The very moment this vidhi was performed everyone was purified. They were not even aware of what confessions they
Dadashri: That is called your conviction. It has come into your conviction that the world is faultless, but how much of this is in your experience? It is not that easy. You can say that it has come into your experience when you maintain this conviction even when mosquitoes, bed bugs and snakes surround you. This conviction will remain. When you see faults in anyone, it is your own mistake; you yourself are at fault, and for that you must do pratikraman. In my conviction and experience the world is faultless.

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made in their letters to me, but they would write down everything. The moment they confessed to me, they surrendered to me and became one with me and their inner strength grew.
After your confession, I would come to know your faults, and I would continue to do vidhi for those faults. In the present time cycle, is there any shortage of any kind of faults? In this time cycle, you are the one at fault if you look at other people's faults. You should not be looking at anyone's faults but at their positive qualities. What virtues does he have? In this age there will be no virtues left; those with virtues are very elevated mahatmas.(P.358)
All the people, who are close to us and near us, have been with us in past lives and are together with us even now. They are considered our spiritual colleagues. It is with these very people that we have bound some vengeance over lifetimes. So if both the sides were to do pratikraman, their accounts would clear up very quickly. Do not forget anyone. Vengeance is bound more strongly with spiritual aspirants who are your colleagues, and if you do face to face pratikramans, your faults 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. (P.359)
Questioner: Everyone, including the aristocrats was crying
prominent 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'.
(P.360) Not having done true alochana is what becomes an obstacle to liberation. There is no problem with the faults. And with true alochana, no problems will remain. And alochana has to be done to a Gnani Purush who is all-powerful. Have you ever confessed your faults in this way? Who could you confess to? Without doing alochana, there is no liberation. Without alochana, who will forgive you? The Gnani Purush can fulfill all one's wishes, because he is not the doer. If he were the doer, then he too would bind karma. But because he is not a doer, he can do whatever he chooses.
You should do alochana to your guru. Your final guru is your 'Dada Bhagwan' (The Self that has awakened within you after Gnan Vidhi). I merely show you the way. Now that I have shown you your final Guru, he will continue to answer your questions and that is why he is ‘Dada Bhagwan'. And until he takes over being your living internal Lord, you may consider this 'Dada' and the Lord within, as your pure Self. When he becomes established within you, the answers will come from within. Ultimately he will be fully enlightened.
(P.367)
Dada.
Dadashri: Yes. What happened in Aurangabaad was amazing. They all wept intensely. Even just one such pratikraman done in a whole lifetime would be adequate.
Questioner: Where else would you find such prominent people crying? It takes a very rare person to make them cry.
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If you hide things from the Gnani Purush, it will hinder you. People do pratikraman in order to bring things out into the open. That man brought so much baggage with him and he came here to confess everything. What happens when you try to hide things? Your faults will remain hidden and they will double.
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You ought to have the same familiarity with pratikraman as you do with a woman. Just as you cannot forget a woman, in the same manner you cannot forget to do pratikraman. All day long you should keep asking for forgiveness. You should make it a habit to ask for forgiveness. Instead you make it a habit to see faults in others. (P.371)
You should start the sacrificial fire of intense pratikraman for whomever you have had excessive atikraman with. You have done so many atikramans. All these problems you have are because you have not done pratikraman.
This pratikraman is my most subtle discovery. If you can understand this discovery of pratikraman, then you will not have any problems with anyone.
Questioner: My list of faults is very long.
Dadashri: If it is long, then for the hundred different kinds of fault with just one person, you should do collective pratikraman. (P.375)
Questioner: It will be better if this drama of life comes to an end quickly.
Dadashri: Why do you say such a thing?
Questioner: You were in this town for twenty days and I was not able to come to even one of your satsang.
Dadashri: Do you have to bring your life to end for that?
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You have come to know 'Dada Bhagwan', through this body of yours, so you should be indebted to it. You must take care of it. You have to take whatever medicine is necessary to care for it. It is through this body that you have met Dada. You have lost countless bodies - all of them were wasted. This body has become a friend because you met Dada through it. It has become a friend so look after it. Tonight do pratikraman for having spoken this way.
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Questioner: When we become engrossed in the activities and workings of the relative self, our awareness becomes shrouded and consequently we are not able to discharge our karma completely. The realization comes later on, so is there a way to do pratikraman for this so that we can discharge the karma?
Dadashri: When you do pratikraman, your karmas will become lighter. When they come again, they will be even lighter. But if you do not do pratikraman, then the same burden will return with the same weight. All these are discharge karmas and through repeated pratikramans they will become progressively lighter and then end.
Questioner: You say that atikraman is neutral (does not charge karma for mahatmas) so why is there a need to do pratikraman?
Dadashri: Atikraman is neutral. But when one becomes engrossed in it, one plants the seed (a cause for a new karma). If you do not become engrossed during atikraman then you do not create any causes. Atikraman in itself does not do anything. And with pratikraman, even when you do not become engrossed in it, it will give results. You are the knower of when Chandubhai

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Pratikraman is done by the ego, but it is pragna that prompts the ego to do pratikraman.
(P. 405) The subtlest of faults (within A. M. Patel) do not escape my observation. None amongst you can tell that these faults are taking place, because they are not visible.
Questioner: Can you also see our faults?
Dadashri: Yes I can see all of them. But I am not concerned with those faults. I am instantly aware of them, but my vision is directed towards your pure Self. It is never focused on the unfolding effects of your karma. I am aware of everyone's faults, but they have no effect on me.
(P.416)
becomes engrossed and also when he does not. You (the Self) never become engrossed. It is the mind, the intellect, the chit and the ego that become engrossed and 'You are the Knower and Seer of these.
Questioner: If Chandubhai becomes engrossed, then we have to tell Chandubhai to do pratikraman, right?
Dadashri: Yes, Chandubhai has to do pratikraman. Questioner: Is it possible to do pratikraman in dreams?
Dadashri: Yes, you can do pratikraman very well. The pratikraman you do in your dreams are better than the ones you do now. Right now you do them quickly, but whatever work gets done during the state of dreaming is very methodical. It is also very good when you see Dada in your dreams. You can see Dada better in your dreams than you can in your wakeful state. This is because dreams are a natural and spontaneous state. And here this state of wakefulness is unnatural.
(P.383) In the kramic path, when one becomes Self-Realized, there is no pratikraman for him. After acquiring the Self, pratikraman is considered poison. For us, the Self does not have to do pratikraman, we make Chandulal do the pratikraman. Because this is Akram Vignan, there is still a lot of baggage left inside.
When you do pratikraman for the person you have wronged, do you know which self in that person you are referring to? You are not doing pratikraman to the relative self, but the pure Self. You are doing pratikraman and asking for forgiveness because of the transgression you have committed against that person in the presence of his pure Self. Therefore you are asking that pure Self for forgiveness. After that, you are not concerned with his relative self.
Even those who are liable for a punishment for their karma are also worthy of forgiveness from me. This forgiveness is spontaneous and natural; the person does not have to ask me for it. People become pure wherever there is spontaneous forgiveness. Where people are required to ask for forgiveness, that is the very place one becomes impure, because egos are involved. Where the forgiveness is spontaneous, everything becomes pure.(P.419)
As long as there is naturalness within me, no pratikraman is required. This would also apply to you if you were to become natural as well. The moment one loses the natural state, one has to do pratikraman. Whenever you look at me, you will see naturalness. I always remain in my natural state, the pure Self, and that never changes.
(P.420)
After I give you this Gnan, I also give you the Five Agnas for your protection, so that you stay as the Self. And if you remain within these Agnas, you will attain liberation. In addition to this, whenever atikraman occurs, you must do pratikraman. If you

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forget to abide by my Agnas, you must do pratikraman. To forget is a human quality, but do pratikraman nevertheless. Do pratikraman in this way: 'Dada, I forgot to abide by your Agnas for the last two hours. I do want to follow your Agnas. Please forgive me.' Then you will be forgiven.
(P.422) 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, that is called a science, and wherever one has to do something, that is all relative religion.
The thinkers amongst you will wonder how without doing anything, they have managed to acquire this Akram Vignan. That is the beauty of Akram Vignan; 'A-kram'! Without kram!(P.432)
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Shree Simandhar Swami ne Namaskar. My Salutations to Shree Simandhar Swami.
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Vatsalyamurti Dada Bhagwan ne Namaskar. My Salutations to Vatsalyamurti Dada Bhagwan. Prapt Man, Vachan, Kaayathi, Aa jagat na koi pan Jeev ne kinchit matra pan dookh na ho, na ho, na ho. Let no living being in this world suffer any hurt whatsoever through the medium of this mind, speech, and body. (5) Keval Shuddhatmanubhav Seevai, Aa jagat ni koi pan vinaashi cheej mane joiti nathi.
With the exception of the experience of the pure soul I have no desire for any temporary things in this world. (5)
Pragat Gnani Purush 'Dada Bhagwan' ni Aagna maaj nirantar rahevaani param shakti praapt ho, praapt ho, praapt ho.
May I acquire the supreme strength to remain in the five aagnas of Gnani Purush 'Dada Bhagwan.' (5)
Gnani Purush 'Dada Bhagwan' na Vitraag Vignan nu, yathaartaye karee ne sampoornah, sarvanghpanhe keval Gnan, keval darshan ne keval charitrah ma pareenamahn ho, pareenamahn ho, pareenamahn ho May absolute Science of the Enlightened One, Gnani Purush Dada Bhagwan, take true hold within me and express fully to the highest level of Absolute Enlightened View, Absolute Enlightened Knowledge and Absolute Enlightened Conduct.
Namaskar Vidhi
1. Pratyaksh "Dada Bhagwan" ni saakshiye vartmaane mahavideh kshetrama vicharta tirthankar bhagwan Shree Simandhar Swami ne atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu. (40) With Dada Bhagwan as my witness, with extreme devotion I offer my salutations to Tirthankar Bhagwan Shree Simandhar Swami who is present in Mahavideh Kshetra.
2. Pratyaksh "Dada Bhagwan"ni saakshiye vartmaane Mahavideh kshetra tatha anya kshetroma vicharta "Om Parmeshti Bhagwanto ne" atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu. (5)
With Dada Bhagwan as my witness, with extreme devotion I offer my salutations to Om Parameshti Bhagwants who are present in Mahavideh and other Kshetras.
3. Pratyaksh "Dada Bhagwan"ni saakshiye vartmaane Mahavideh kshetra tatha anya kshetroma vicharta "Punch Parmeshti Bhagwanto ne" atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu. (5)
With Dada Bhagwan as my witness, with extreme devotion I offer my salutations to Panch Parameshti Bhagwants who are present in Mahavideh and other Kshetras.
4. Pratyaksh "Dada Bhagwan"ni saakshiye vartmaane Mahavideh kshetra tatha anya kshetroma vihurmaan "Tirthankar Sahebo ne" atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu. (5)
With Dada Bhagwan as my witness, with extreme devotion I offer my salutations to Tirthankar Sahebs who are present in Mahavideh and other Kshetras.

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5. Vitraag shaasan dev-deviyo ne atyant bhakti poorvak namskar karu chhu. I offer my salutations with extreme devotion to Vitraag Saashan Dev and Devis. 6. Nispakshpati shaasan dev-deviyo ne atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu.
(5) I offer my salutations with extreme devotion to Nispakshapati Saashan Dev and Devis. 7. Chauvees Tirthankar bhagwanto ne atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu.
(5) I offer my salutations with extreme devotion to 24 Tirthankars Bhagwans. 8. Shree Krishna Bhagwan ne atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu. I offer my salutations with extreme devotion to Shree Krishna Bhagwan. 9. Bharat kshetre haal vicharta Sarvagna Shree Dada Bhagwan ne nischay thi atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu.
(5) With unflinching devotion I offer my salutations to Sarvagna Shree Dada Bhagwan who is present in Bharat Kshetra (this world). (5) 10. Dada Bhagwan na sarve Gnani Mahatmao ne atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu chhu. With extreme devotion, I offer my salutations to all Gnani Mahatmas of Dada Bhagwan. 11. Aakha bramhanda na jeev matra na "REAL SWAROOP" ne atyant bhakti poorvak namaskar karu
(5)
With extreme devotion, I offer my salutations to the "REAL SELF "in all living forms of this universe. 12. Real Swaroop ey bhagvat swaroop chhe, jethi aakha jagat na bhagvat swaroope darshan karu chhu. (5) The "REAL SELF" is "God " and so I see God in all living beings. 13. Real Swaroop ey Shuddhatma swaroop chhe, jethi aakha jagat ne Shuddhatma swaroope darshan karu chhu. (5) The "REAL SELF" is the "Pure Self" and so I see the "Pure Self" in all living beings. 14. Real Swaroop ey tutva swaroop che, jethi aakha jagat ne tutva gnane karine darshan karu chhu. The "REAL SELF" is "Elemental Self" and so I see the entire world through Tatvagnan or "Elemental Knowledge".
Nav Kalamo
NINE PRICELESS DIKSHAVAKYAS, THE ESSENCE OF
ALL SCRIPTURES AND RELIGIONS 1. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mune koi pan deh-dhari jivatma no
kinchit matra pan aham Na dubhai, Na dubhavai, ke dubhava pratye Na anumodai, vi param Shakti aapo. Mane koi deh-dhari jivatma no kinchit matra pan ahum Na dubhai evi syaad-vaad Vani, syaad-vaad vartan ane syaadvaad manan karvani param Shakti aapo. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane koi pan dharma nu kinchit matra pan praman no dubhai, Na dubhavai, ke dubhava pratye no anumodai, evi param Shakti aapo. Mane koi pan dharma nu, kinchit matra pan praman na dubhai, evi syaad-vaad vani, syaad vaad vartan ane syaad-vaad
(5)
chhu.

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mannan karvaani param shakti aapo. 3. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane koi pan deh-dhari oopdeshak,
sadhu, sadhvi, aacharya no, avarnavaad, apraadh, avinay na
karvaani param shakti aapo. 4. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane koi pandeh-dhari jivatma pratye,
kinchit matra pan abhaav, tiraskaar, kyaareya pan na karaaya, na karavaay, ke karta pratye na anumodai evi param shakti aapo. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane koi pan deh-dhari jivatma saathe kyaareya pan katthor bhaasha, tunteeli bhaasha na bolai, na bolavai, ke bolva pratye na anumodai evi param shakti aapo. Koi katthor bhaasha, tunteeli bhaasha bole, to mane mrudu
rujhu bhaasha bolvaani shakti aapo. 6. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane koi pan deh-dhaari jivatma pratye
streeh, purush, agur napunsak, gummeh te ling-dhari hoi, toh tenah sambhandi kinchit matra pan vishay-vikaar sambhandi dosho, iccha-o, chesta-o, ke vichaar sambhandhi dosho na karai, na karvai, ke karta pratye na anumodai, evi param shakti aapo. Mane nirantar nirvikaar rahevaani param shakti
aapo. 7. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane koi pan rus ma lubdha-panoo
Na karai evi param shakti aapo. Samrasi khoraak levai, evi
param shakti aapo. 8. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane koi pan deh-dhari jivaatma no;
pratyaksh agar paroksh, jeevant agar mrutyu paamelano, koi no, kinchit matra pan avarnavaad, apraadh, avinay Na karai, na karaavai, ke karta prayte na anumodai, evi param shakti
ааро. 9. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane jagat kalyaan karvaanu nimit
banvaani param shakti aapo, shakti aapo, shakti aapo.
Ask the above from Dada Bhagwan (The Lord within you). This should not slip into a daily routine of recital. These sentences should come from your heart. Experience these bhavna with alert awareness from within.
These nine sentences encompass the essence of all the scriptures of the world.
Shuddhatma pratye prathana Hae Antaryaami Parmatma! Aap dar-aek jiv-maatrama beeraj-maan chho temaj maarama pan beerajela chho. Aaapnoo swaroop tehj maaroo swaroop chhe. Maaroo swaroop - "Shuddhatma" chhe.
Hae Shuddhatma Bhagwan ! Hoon aaapne abhed bhaave atyant bhakti poorvuk namaskaar karoo chhu. Agnanta-ey kareene meh je je dosho karya chhe, te sarva doshoney aapni samaksha jaaher karoo chhu. Tey-no hradai poorvak khoobh pastaavo karoo chhu. Aney aapni paasey kshama praarthu chhu. Hae Prabhu ! Mane kshama karo, kshama karo, kshama karo! Aney fur-ree aeva dosho naa karoo aevi aap mane shakti aapo.
Hae Shuddhatma Bhagwan ! Aap aevi krupa karo ke um-ne bhed-bhaav chhuti jaai aney abhed swaroop praapt thai. Amey tamara-ma abhed swaroope tan-maiyakaar rahiyeh.
Prayer to pureself Oh Pure Soul within me! You reside within all living beings. just as you reside in me. Your divine form is my real form. My Real form is "Shuddhatma." (Pure Atma).
Oh Shuddhatma Bhagwan ! With infinite devotion and oneness, I offer my salutations to you. I confess unto you, all mistakes * that I have committed in my ignorant state. I sincerely repent for these mistakes and ask for your pardon. Oh Lord! Please forgive

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Persons to Contact me, forgive me, forgive me and give me the strength not to repeat these mistakes again. Oh Shuddhatma Bhagwan ! Please bless us all with such grace that this separation from you disappears and we attain oneness with you. May we remain One with you at all times. (* Recall the past mistakes that you have committed) Pratikraman Vidhi Pratyaskh Dada Bhagwan-ni sakshi-ye Dehdhari * na man-vachan-kaaya na yog, bhaavkarma, dravyakarma, nokarma-thi bhiina eva hae shuddhatma bhagwan, aaj din sudhi je je ** dosho thaya che, teni kshama maangoo chhu, aalochana, pratikraman, pratyakhyaan karu chhu. Mune kshama karo, kshama karo, ksama karo. Ne faree eva dosh kyareya pun nahi karoo, evo dradh nischay karoo chhu. Hae Dada Bhagwan! Mane evo koi pun dosh na karvaani param shakti aapo, shakti aapo, shakti aapo. Pratikraman : Process of Divine Apology With Dada Bhagwan as my witness, I offer my salutations to the Pure Soul who is totally separate from the mind, speech, and body of * I recall my mistakes (aalochana) ** I apologize for these mistakes (pratikraman) I affirm not to repeat these mistakes again (Pratyakhyaan) Dearest Dada Bhagwan ! Grant me the strength to act in accordance with this firm resolution. * name of the person hurt by you. ** recall the mistakes you committed with this person. Pujya Dr. Niruben Amin & Aaptputra Deepakbhai Desai Adalaj : Trimandir Sankul, Ahmedabad-Mehsana Highway, Simandhar City, Adalaj, Dist.: Gandhinagar - 382421. Tel : (079) 3970102-3-4-5-6 Ahmedabad : "Dada Darsan", 5, Mamtapark Society, B/h. Navgujarat College, Usmanpura, Ahmedabad-380 014. Tel. : (079) 754 0408-754 3979 E-mail : info@dadabhagwan.org Mumbai : B/904, Navinasha Apt., Dada Saheb Falke Road, Dadar (C.R.), Mumbai - 400014. Tel : (022) 2413 7616, Mobile : 9820-153953 Vadodara : Dilip Jain : (0265) 2574328, Yogiraj Patel, Tel. : 2644465, Surat : Vithalbhai Patel, Tel : (0261) 2544964 Rajkot : Atulbhai Maldhari, Tel. : (0281) 2468830, Godhra : Ghanshyam Varia, Tel. : (02672) 251875 Chennai : Ajitbhai C. Patel, Tel : (044) 826 1243, 826 1369 U.S.A. : Dada Bhagwan Vignan Institue : Dr. Bachu Amin, 902 SW Mifflin Rd, Topeka, Kansas 66606. Tel : (785) 271-0869, E-mail : bamin@cox.net Dr. Shirish Patel, 2659 Raven Circle, Corona, CA 92882 Tel. : (909) 734-4715, E-mail : shirishpatel@attbi.com U.K. : Maganbhai Patel, 2, Winifred Terrace, Enfield, Great Cambridge Road, London, Middlesex, ENI 1HH, U.K. Tel : 020-8245-1751 Ramesh Patel, 636, Kenton Road, Kenton Harrow. Middlesex HA3 9NR. Tel. : 020-8204-0746, E-mail : dadabhagwan_uk@yahoo.com Canada : Bipin Purohit, 151, Trillium Road, Montreal, Quebec H9B 113. Tel. : 514-421-0522 Website : www.dadabhagwan.org, www.dadashri.org