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PRATIKRAMNA (INTRODUCTION)
Jainism advocates the ritual of Pratikramna to be performed every now and then. Annual and longest Pratikramna (3 hour long ritual) is performed or observed on the last day of the religious festival (Paryushan).
Pratikramna means review, confession and repentance of one's own bad thoughts and deeds. Pratikramna means going back, back to the good and noble path, back to the path of non-violence and truth. This is not only a religious ritual, it is an idea of extending friendship, forgetting and forgiving others' faults and asking for forgiveness with an open heart.
Here is a Pratikramna - Sutra (The text of observing Pratikramna). The original text consists of many hymns in praise of "Lords, many verses in repentance and confessions. This is a process of cleaning one's own mind, purifying ideas and making resolution for finding the right path.
Original Pratikramna Sutra - text is written partly in Prakrit and partly in old Gujarati language, i.e. different verses were composed by different authors at different times and in different languages. Pratikramna
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