Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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Pratikraman giving you. If you do not experience the bliss of this science in exactness, then there is a mistake on your part. If you understand this Science, you will not face any suffering.
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Questioner: Dada Bhagwan is immune to the karma of suffering, but it would affect Ambalalbhai?
Dadashri: No. Neither one is affected. That is the power of this Science. One would go insane if it affected him. Suffering is there because of the absence of knowledge. If the knowledge prevails, it would not affect even this file (Chandulal). It does not affect anyone. Suffering is where there is no knowledge. How could there be any suffering if you know this Gnan? Where Gnan is, there is no pleasure or pain. (P.190)
13. Liberation From Artadhyana and Raudradhyana
Questioner: It is said that two forms of adverse mediations are constantly occuring: artadhyan and raudradhyan. Please explain the difference between the two.
Dadashri: Artadhyana involves only you. It occurs when you suffer silently without anyone's knowledge. Raudradhyan is when you suffer and others also suffer because of for your internal
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A person who is not Self-Realized will experience adverse meditation of the type, which affects him only (artadhyana), because he identifies himself with his relative self. He believes that everything that is happening is happening to him. For example, he may start worrying about his daughter's marriage when she is only five years old, or the welfare of his family if he were to die. To worry, to be confused and puzzled about oneself is considered artadhyan. (P.190) Adverse meditation that affects others is raudradhyan. Here
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one blames others for his predicament. To think negatively of others or to cheat them or wish them harm, is all raudradhyan. For example a cloth merchant cheats his customers by stretching the material when he measures it. From the moment he decides to cheat his customers, he is guilty of raudradhyan. (P.191)
If a person has committed severe raudradhyan, he can turn it into artadhyan by doing pratikraman. If two people are guilty of the same kind of raudradhyan where they both have expressed a desire to kill someone, their inner state for violence is raudradhyan. If one of them goes home and sincerely repents for having such a destructive bhaav, his raudradhyan will become artadhyan while the other will continue his raudradhyan.
Through repentance, raudradhyan can be changed to artadhyan. With repentance one can be diverted from a birth in hell to a birth in the animal kingdom. With further intense repentance, one can turn raudradhyan into dharmadhyan. Actions and events may not change, but changes are taking place from within. (P.193) Questioner: When I remain separate and make 'Chandulal' do pratikraman, what is it called?
Dadashri: You are the pure Self now, but will this body not also need liberation? This body which is a complex of thoughts, speech and acts must be such that it does not hurt others. If you do not make it do pratikraman, it will not be free from errors. You need to engage it into the state of dharmadhyan. It cannot attain shukladhyan (the state of the Self), so you must engage it in dharmadhyan. You must make it do pratikramans continuously. Pratikraman must be done as many times as artadhyan occurs. Artadhyan occurs because of ignorance in your past life and for that you must do pratikraman. Artadhyan is an effect. (P.194)