Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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pratikramans that takes a couple of hours a session, a large portion of your major faults are erased. Then the pratikraman process is repeated, this time recalling the more subtle faults and these are also cleared. Then the process is repeated again and this time even smaller faults are wiped out. Thus practically all faults are wiped off.
In the two-hour session of pratikraman all the mistakes of this life are washed off. When you make a firm decision not to repeat such faults again, that is considered pratyakhyan.
When you sit down to do pratikraman, you will experience the 'nectar' from within and you will feel very light.
Are you doing pratikraman? Do you feel light (a sense of freedom) when you do? Are you doing pratikraman intensely? Recall everyone and do his or her pratikraman. Start digging and looking for your faults and do your pratikraman. As you start, your faults will begin to come into your recollection and you will begin to see everything. If you kicked someone eight years ago, you will see that incident too. How do these events come into your recollection, when otherwise they do not come even if you try to recall them? The moment you begin your pratikraman, a link is established. Have you tried even once, to do pratikraman for your whole life? Questioner: Yes, once I had.
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Dadashri: Before, you could not see any mistakes at all, could you? The mistakes you see now are your tangible mistakes. You will see even beyond this level.
Questioner: Are we talking about the subtle, very subtle and extremely subtle levels...?
Dadashri: You will continue to see your mistakes.(P.353)
When you do pratikraman for your entire life, you are neither in the state of liberation nor are you in this worldly life. When you do pratikraman, you are actually watching a documentary of your past. During this time there are no interruptions from your mind, your intellect, your chitor yourego. Your entire internal mechanism of mind, intellect, chit and ego is silent. During that time only pragna (direct force of the Self) is working. The pure Self is not doing anything.
When mistakes are made, and they are not recognized in alert awareness, they become concealed, and build up in layers. These layers continue to grow and at the time of death, a summation of all these mistakes takes place in the final hour.
It is because of the light of Gnan that you are presently able to see the faults committed in the past; it has nothing to do with memory
Questioner: Does pratikraman have any effect on the Soul (Self)?
Dadashri: No effect whatsoever can touch the Self. There is no effect on the Self. There is absolutely no doubt that the Self exists. It reigns beyond the boundaries of memory, and that is why you are able to go beyond the memory. The Self is a storehouse of infinite strength. This strength is called pragna shakti, which can break through all the layers from the core of the earth.
Dadashri: Still when you come to see the roots of your major mistakes then, you will experience a lot of bliss. If you do not feel bliss when you do pratikraman, it means that you have not learnt to do it properly. A person is not human when atikraman occurs but he does not feel any sorrow or remorse.
Questioner: What root of our major mistake are you talking about Dada?