Pratikramana Full Version

SR No.: 007553
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation
Publication Year: 2010
Total Pages: 333
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Akram Vigyan, & Paryushan
File Size: 40 KB

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pratikraman for numerous and innumerous past lives, then everything will become clean for sure, is that true?
Dadashri: There is no estimate of what has occurred in the past. One simply comes (is born) with claims; he will bring forward some kind of a claim or a 'letter', therefore, you have to recognize that it is an account from the past. It appears that it is not a claim of the present life, but of the past.
Questioner: Yes, but what if I want to do all the pratikraman in advance so that everything becomes so pure that no claim comes calling? What if I do pratikraman in advance for claims that I have not even brought? Is it possible to do this kind of pratikraman if I say it in this manner?
Dadashri: It will only occur if one brings forth a claim. If there is no claim, then he has nothing to do with it. You can only do pratikraman for the claim that exists and arises.
Questioner: So one cannot be free until the claim for each and every mistake is settled, is that so? Is there not a general pratikraman that you have talked about for the purpose of erasing mistakes of numerous and innumerous past lives?
Dadashri: Yes.
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Questioner: I am asking for forgiveness for that. I am doing pratikraman for that. How should I do pratikraman for that?
Dadashri: That is all you need to say, nothing else. Do not make it your agenda to inquire into details. Do it only the way it is written. Another thing is, do pratikraman only for all the attacks,' claims that you have brought with you that will arise as conflicts and kashays and nothing more. Do general pratikraman as you have been told in Gnan.
Questioner: But, Dada, the 'attack,' the effect of clash seems to be the same again and again, and I do 'shoot-on-sight'
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pratikraman. But...
Dadashri: You have to do only as much as 'we' have told you and nothing more.
Questioner: No, but when I have that surplus time, if I continue to say the same thing over and over again for hours on end, will that work?
Dadashri: You have to do as 'we' have told you. When you have the surplus time, you cannot put in your own wisdom by saying, 'Everything done in this lifetime, numerous or innumerous lifetimes, everything... You cannot add your own 'ingredients' into it. You will poison half of it. And finish all the claims that you have brought with you and nothing new. Do not say anything new. Do you understand? Continue doing everything the way it is supposed to be done. The intellect will paint something negative. It will kill you. 'What's wrong with doing it this way?" That is what it will show you.
When does attachment (raag) arise? It arises from abhorrence (dwesh). And then raag gives rise to dwesh again. Therefore, they are all mistakes. There is raag-dwesh wherever there is a mistake. That is considered a 'sticky' file.
Lord Mahavir's Principle is Based On This
Whoever's pratikraman we do, he may not have any bad feelings towards us, but respect for us will arise within him because the pratikramans have been done. No matter how much enmity there may be, it will go away in this very life. This is the only solution. The whole principle of Lord Mahavir is based verily on pratikraman. It is alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan! There is no religion (dharma) where there is no alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan. The people of the world will not remember this alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, whereas You have become a Shuddhatma and, therefore, you will remember them immediately.