Aptavani 02

SR No.: 007535
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 303
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 34 KB

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language the people are employing today. He gave proper instructions, but people interpreted them according to their own understanding. The Lord had said, "Understand correctly in your own language." He had said for us to use the 'soap' (do pratikraman) for cleansing away the stains (any wrong doing). But here people buy the soap, but they simply keep reciting the pratikraman ritually. No one is applying the soap to clean their clothes and yet they claim they are doing pratikraman. When they are finished with reciting their pratikraman, they go out and start gossiping. Pratikraman should be instant. Pratikraman should be done the moment atikraman occurs. Cash! Bodily activities are instant. Brushing teeth, drinking tea and eating breakfast are prompt activities, it is like cash in hand. Similarly, the activity of speech and mind are also 'cash', they are instantaneous. So should be the pratikraman for any atikraman. Pratikraman should be done the moment any atikraman occurs, this way everything will begin to purify. If you do pratikraman the moment atikraman occurs, the mind and speech will begin to purify.
People do not understand what atikraman is and neither do they understand pratikraman. Once a year they do generic and collective micchami dookadam' (forgive my transgressions). without understanding what micchami' or 'dookadam' means.
Pratikraman sessions today are conducted in the Magadhi language. The Maharaj reads and everyone listens, so how is the chit likely to be contained? People are likely to become interested if they understand what the Maharaj is reading. But people don't understand it and then later they start gossiping The Lord did not tell one to behave in this manner. What He said was, "if you stumble, then realize that you must have erred and therefore immediately do alochana (confession of misdeeds) to your Guru or with me as your witness." This pratikraman has to be done directly, immediately and on a one-on-one basis; only then will you be able to wash away the mistake, just as you
are quick to wash the stains on your clothes, to prevent it from setting in. Human beings are like this, if they spill tea on their clothes, they will rush to wash off the stain, whereas they have no care about washing off the stains that have tainted their minds from countless past lives. Pratikraman should be a cash business, nothing should be left pending. Why is it that people's 'clothes' remain dirty despite doing pratikraman every day? Is it because they do not have the right soap, or their clothes are the wrong kind, or the water is dirty? Why else would their clothes not become clean if they wash them everyday? It is because no one can see their own faults, so how can they do pratikraman? Our mahatmas do two hundred to five hundred pratikramans everyday and wash off their faults. One can go to moksha in two hours if he has five hundred thousand faults left, but if you ask these people, they will claim they have only two or three faults!
Questioner: Is it true that one has to go to a religious place to do pratikraman?
Dadashri : You can do pratikraman even while drinking tea or taking a bath. One has to be concerned about location if he is involved in worldly religious practices of the body, the mind or the intellect (deha-dharma, mano-dharma and buddhidharma). However, ours is the religion of the Soul (Atmadharma) and therefore we are not concerned with the physical body, so you are free to do pratikraman anywhere you like.
Many consider bathing is the only religion. That is why their religion has not progressed further. Those who are involved in deha-dharma have large quantities of parmanu of attachment in them and if someone were to insult them, they will see that person as a culprit and regard him one hundred percent guilty. In the same situation, a person with greater spiritual development will accept that the fault lies in his own karma. He makes progress by accepting that his 'dirty clothes' (karmic load) are