Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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Pratikraman
him or her. You misuse your intelligence when you make fun of others. You took advantage of your higher intellect to overcome his lesser intellect in making fun of him. (P.295)
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Questioner: How can we stop this tape from recording? How can we stop from creating new causes for speech that will hurt others?
Dadashri: By not creating any vibrations of any kind in speech, you will not make a new tape. You must simply observe everything. But that is not so easy because even this is a machine (the relative self) and furthermore, it is not under your control. That is why I am showing you an alternate way. If the words have expressed and you do pratikraman immediately, the taping of an effect in the next life will be erased. Pratikraman is the tool used for erasing. With pratikraman there will be a change in your speech in one or two lifetimes and your negative speech will stop altogether.
Questioner: After attaining Self-realization, pratikramans are occuring constantly.
Dadashri: Therefore you are not accountable. If you do pratikraman for whatever you say, you will no longer be liable. If you have to speak sternly, do so but without any attachment or abhorrence, and do pratikraman vidhi immediately.
Questioner: What is the pratikraman vidhi?
Dadashri: For example if you hurt Chandulal, then you have to invoke the one who is free from, thoughts, speech and actions; bhav karma, dravya karma and no karma; of 'Chandulal (or the name of the person you hurt) and all illusions attached to that name. This One is the 'Shuddhatma Bhagwan' (the pure Soul). Then say, 'Dear Shuddhatma Bhagwan, I have spoken in a harsh manner and that is a fault of mine. I am repenting for this mistake.
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I am asking for your forgiveness. I am resolving not to repeat this mistake. Please give me the strength not to repeat the mistake again'.
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Think of Dada (The fully enlightened Lord within The Gnani Purush) or Shuddhatma Bhagwan when you do your pratikraman. First do alochana, which means that you are confessing your mistake. Then do pratikraman, which is the actual asking for forgiveness that will cleanse your mistakes, and lastly do pratyakhyan, which is your resolve never to repeat the mistake. (P.297)
Questioner: Will our speech improve in future, after we do pratikraman?
Dadashri: It will indeed be something to see after you do pratikraman. It is because of pratikraman that my speech is of the highest quality. It is because of pratikraman that this speech is above any controversy or dispute and accepted by all. Elsewhere all speech creates controversy. Purity in worldly interactions means there is no ego involved in any worldly interactions. Only such a person's speech is accepted by all. (P.298)
21. Faults Of The Prakruti Will Leave In This Way....
It is better to drink the poison of this satsang (company of the real), then to drink the nectar of the world. At least the poison of the satsang has pratikraman in it. I have ingested all the goblets of poison and have become Mahadev (Symbol of The Absolute). (P.299) Questioner: I think a lot about coming near you but I am unable to do so.
Dadashri: Is anything in this world under your control? You should feel remorse when you are not able to come to my