Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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time and energy. What they really need to do is something completely different. Really all one needs 'to do', is ask for inner strength (bhaavna). Everything that is taking place now is because of the strength that was previously asked for.
(P.84) Questioner: Everything from our previous lifetime is in the form of an effect, is it not?
you?
Dadashri: Yes, everything that you have done in the past life has come into effect in this life. So now ask for strength as a cause for the next life. Just ask for the strength by saying the Nine Kalams (See at the end of this book). If we were to write a hundred to two hundred such kalams, it would incorporate all the scriptures. All you really have to do is ask for strength and nothing more. If you want to do something as a doer, then ask for strength.
Questioner: Is it simply a matter of asking for strength?
Dadashri: Yes, because not everyone will seek liberation. However, if people want to be doers of anything, they should just ask for strength.
Questioner: This applies only to those who have not acquired Gnan, right?
Dadashri: Yes, this is applicable to them only. This is for the people at large because at the moment the path they are taking is completely wrong and they will never succeed in their endeavors.
(P.85) A person may want to do something and yet he is prevented from doing so, what can he do if the effect of his karma works against him? The Lord says that you must remain in the present and be an observer of all that happens around you. The Lord did not advocate doing anything, yet people are perpetually griping about not being able to do something. They constantly complain
about their desire to do things, their efforts to do them and their inability to get things done. Do you know what effect the constant contemplation of your inability to do anything has on the relative self? It will tum the soul relative self into a stone (without feelings). In spite of this, people carry on with their rituals and austerities and simultaneously gripe about how difficult they are to perform.
I tell people that they should never say, 'I can not do', because within them, they have infinite strength. I tell them to keep repeating the following: 'I have infinite strength. Until now you kept saying, 'I can't do it'; did the infinite strength within abandon
(P.87) Man is not capable of doing anything. It is not in his nature to do anything. The control of doership' is in the hands of another power. All these living beings are simply the knower. Therefore all that you must do is to be the knower. When you understand this, your falsely held beliefs and opinions disappear. The opinions you held before that there is no harm in telling lies, will change. This is the real purushaarth (real knowledge based effort), no other effort is needed. This is a profound message, which requires profound thinking Questioner: Yes, it is very acceptable.
(P.89) Dadashri: Even the simple act of going to the bathroom (emptying your bowels) is not in your hands, so how is it possible for you to do anything? No such man has yet been born, who has even the slightest power to do anything. All you have to do is simply to know and make a firm resolution to be the knower only. Once you understand my words, your work will be done. This is not a simple thing to grasp. Do you understand this? Is it not better to know than to do something? Is it easy to do and attain anything?