Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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Pratikraman
Pratikraman
Dadashri: Everything is discharge. Everything. Pratikraman is only for the atikraman done, and not for anything else. If you do not do pratikraman, your innate nature and tendencies will never change. Do you understand?
Unless you oppose it, it will never become exposed and that opinion will stay with you. If you become angry, you must do pratikraman because you do not wish to support your anger. If you fail to do pratikraman, it would mean that you are in favor of your anger. You become free from your faults in this way. This allows you to shed your karmas. There should be a means to express your defiance towards your anger.
aware of your atikraman and you will immediately do pratikraman and automatically wash away your faults. This process will continue to take place systematically. Once these faults are cleared, the other person will not feel any negativity towards you. Otherwise when you meet the other person again, there will be a sense of separation from him and awareness of the presence of an internal rift.
(P.112) Questioner: How are we to wash away our paap (demerit) karmas?
Dadashri: As many stains (effect of hurting others) that appear from your paap karma, you must do that many pratikraman. If a stain is stubborn, then it will need to be washed over and over
again.
Questioner: How can you tell whether that stain is gone or not?
Do you want anger to become a part of you or do you want to be rid of it?
Questioner: I want to get rid of it.
Dadashri: If you want to get rid of it, then you must do pratikraman for it. Only then, can you maintain that you are opposed to your anger. Otherwise, it would be the same as supporting it.
(P.109) What does pratikraman mean? It means to become lighter and feel freer. If the same fault were to occur again, the person would feel very uneasy from within. People in general keep multiplying their faults.
Have you witnessed a real pratikraman where your fault has gone or decreased?
Questioner: Nowhere else. Just here.
Dadashri: You will only be able to do pratikraman when, after Gnan, you will realize from within that a fault has occurred. Until then, you will not. After taking this Gnan, you will be more
Dadashri: You will know when your mind becomes clean. Your face will glow. Natural smile will take hold. Will you not know then that the stain is gone? And even if the stain has not gone, there is no problem. All you have to do is continue with your pratikraman. Keep scrubbing away with the soap of pratikraman. Do you understand what paap is?
Questioner: It is paap when one does not comply with Dada's Agnas.
Dadashri: No it is not that. That is not paap. Paap is when you hurt others, whether it is a tree, a human or an animal, or any living being. To pick leaves from a tree unnecessarily, is a sin because the tree also perceives pain.
By not following my Agnas, you will be the one to suffer,