Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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Pratikraman
Pratikraman
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