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Collective (samuhik) pratikraman is done for karma of the past life, all other karma of those who are not related to you, or incidents you are not aware of where you may have hurt someone. For all that, you have to do collective pratikraman. And if I know that I have hurt you with my leg, then I have to do individual pratikraman for that. That has to be done immediately. Powerful Circumstances Obstruct Pratikraman
Questioner: Dada, many times when I make a mistake, I remember You and all I say is, 'Dear Dada, I am asking for forgiveness for the mistake I made.' I do not do a lengthy pratikraman.
Dadashri: There is nothing wrong in asking for forgiveness, but make sure you do the pratikraman. Ask for forgiveness if you are not able to do pratikraman.
Questioner: Sometimes the circumstances are so strong that they prevent me from doing pratikraman. (434)
Dadashri: Ask for forgiveness for that.
Bombardment of Atikraman
Questioner: Five to twenty-five atikraman occur within
an hour.
Dadashri: Then you can combine them and do pratikraman for them together. If they occur together, then say that you are doing collective pratikraman for them.
Questioner: How do we do collective pratikraman?
Dadashri: Say, 'All these atikramans have occurred for which I am doing collective pratikraman.' If atikraman has occurred on a certain topic, then say that, 'Atikraman occurred on this subject, on this subject and on this subject; so I am doing a collective pratikraman for atikraman done on all these subjects. And so they will all be resolved. And if some still
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remain, then I will wash them off for you. But do not sit around because of that. Everything will remain stagnant within if you sit idle. There is no need to get entangled in all this.
One man tells me, 'I have to do up to two thousand pratikramans a day. I get tired of it. What should I do?' So 'we' told him to do collective pratikraman. How can a man do two thousand pratikramans at a time? How can one say and do it two thousand times over? Now whatever mistakes You 'see', they go away and then others come. Whatever mistakes You 'see', they fall off, whereas someone else would say, 'I see the same mistake again and again.' So 'we' tell him that the same mistake cannot come back. An onion has many layers. As you remove one layer, another layer comes forth. Similarly, these mistakes have layers. When one layer is removed, it is replaced by the next one. So it is not the same layer; the previous layer is gone. If there were thirty layers, twenty-nine will remain. Then when you remove another layer from that, twenty-eight layers will remain.
This is a receptacle of infinite mistakes. You may 'see' up to three thousand mistakes a day. That man got tired so 'we' lowered the level for him. One cannot do so much. He could 'see' many mistakes because his awareness has increased a lot. Now he would find it very difficult to do that many pratikramans as he is a working man, would he not? Therefore, 'we' dimmed his awareness and told him to do collective (jathu) pratikraman. Jathu means to do pratikraman of everything together. However, what should our pratikraman be like? It should be 'shoot-onsight' pratikraman. It should be 'cash.'
Pratikraman is done the moment the mistake occurs. There are some who go as far as to tell me, 'Dada, I cannot bear it. I cannot do pratikraman at all. I have to do so many pratikramans that in doing them one by one, there is no end to them. I can see that many mistakes.' So 'we' tell them to do
| SR No. | 007553 |
| Book Title | Pratikramana Full Version |
| 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 |