Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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Pratikraman
Pratikraman
Chandulal behaves recklessly. Your life carries a tremendous responsibility with it. Ieven hesitate when I say that seventy percent of the human race is doomed! This is the final assurance I give you in these terrible times. I am putting the weapon of pratikraman into your hands. With pratikraman you stand a chance of being saved. And if you do it according to my Agnas, you salvation will come sooner. You will have to endure the suffering of your mistakes, but not many.
If someone tells you that you have no sense and insults you in public and your spontaneous reaction is to want to bless him, you should know that your separation would always be there. At such a time of public insult, You are also aware that Chandulal is being scolded and not you.
(P.277) Normally during satsangs, I would invite Chandulal to come and sit in the front. On some days, I would not even acknowledge his presence. What is my intention? I know that he would feel rejected for having to sit in the back. I would continue to give him praise at one time and deflate him at another. By doing this, he would make more progress in Gnan and he would progress further. I employ different tactics with everyone for their progress in this Gnan, and it is different for each person. Getting rid of the weaknesses of the prakruti is very important, because how long can you go on keeping something that does not even belong to you?
All my actions are for the support and progress of Gnan only.
Questioner: You are right, there is no escape as long as the weaknesses of prakruti exists.
Dadashri: As for myself, it was this Gnan and Nature that helped me get rid of my prakruti. Yours will not go until I do it for
you as your nimit (instrument).
(P.277) 19. Addiction Of Compulsive Lying Questioner: Are we binding karmas when we tell lies?
Dadashri: Of course! But more than telling a lie, it is the intent to tell a lie that binds more karma. Telling lies is the effect of your past karmas. The actual charging of karma occurs because of one's internal intent and resolve to tell lies. Will this knowledge help you?
Questioner: One should stop telling lies.
Dadashri: No. One should let go of the opinion that one should tell lies. If you lie, you must repent for it. When you do this, you may not stop lying, but at least your opinion supporting lies will cease.
Repent for your lies by saying, "I am not going to lie from this day onwards. Lying is the greatest sin. Lying causes great pain. Telling lies will bind me. Please forgive, Lord." Once your opinion changes, you will ultimately stop telling lies.
20. Awareness While Speaking... The mind is not as much of a problem as the speech is, because the mind functions secretly, whereas speech can carve a hole in a person's heart and hurt him severely. You must ask for forgiveness from whomever you have hurt with your speech. You must recall each and every person and do pratikraman in his name.
Questioner: Can we expect be forgiven for all faults committed through our speech with pratikraman?
Dadashri: The faults will remain in the form of a burnt rope. It looks like a rope, but it cannot bind like a rope. With