Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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By doing pratikraman, you become filled with a sense of freedom and that freedom is freedom from all attachment and abhorrence. All animosity is naturally broken. And it does not matter if the other person is not there for your pratikraman. Your pratikraman does not require his endorsement. When you committed the faults, no witness was present. You commit most of the faults against people in their absence anyway. In essence although their very presence has precipitated these faults, they have not endorsed them. The endorsement came from your internal attachment and abhorrence.
Some day if you are sitting alone, and you start to do pratikraman, the experience of the Self will begin to solidify from within. The taste will arise. This is the experience of the Self.
(P.354)
When you begin to see everyone in your family as faultless, then you should know that your pratikraman is true. People definitely are faultless; the whole world is faultless. You are bound by your own mistakes, not by theirs. When you understand this, you will be able to resolve everything.
(P.355) Questioner: It is absolutely resolved in my mind that this whole world is faultless.
And this is evident in my conduct. You however, do not have the same experience. You still see faults in the world. You have to do pratikraman when someone does something wrong to you, and that is because you see him as being at fault.
Questioner: Does atikraman ever occur if one remains in the awareness of one's Pure Self?
Dadashri: Yes, you can have atikraman as well as pratikraman.
If you feel that you did not stay in your pure awareness and went off on the wrong track and started seeing the world with the eyes of Chandulal, then you should do pratikraman for loosing the awareness of the Self. Taking the wrong path is a waste of time and energy, but there are no repercussions from this because it does not hurt others and so pratikraman is not necessary. You still have one more life to go, so you need not worry about this for the time being. But those who absolutely want to remain in their awareness should do pratikraman.
(P.356) I rarely ever use this vidhi. In Aurangabad, I did a vidhi to wash away faults of countless past lives of mahatmas. It was a vidhi of one hour of pratikraman in which everyone's ego was dissolved. I used to do this vidhi of pratikraman once a year. There were about three hundred people or more that wept intensely after the vidhi. All their internal enemies were dissipated. Even the husbands prostrated at the feet of their wives and asked for forgiveness. The bondage of so many lives was washed away.
There in Aurangabad, a major vidhi had to be performed every year, to purify the minds of mahatmas and their relative selves. The very moment this vidhi was performed everyone was purified. They were not even aware of what confessions they
Dadashri: That is called your conviction. It has come into your conviction that the world is faultless, but how much of this is in your experience? It is not that easy. You can say that it has come into your experience when you maintain this conviction even when mosquitoes, bed bugs and snakes surround you. This conviction will remain. When you see faults in anyone, it is your own mistake; you yourself are at fault, and for that you must do pratikraman. In my conviction and experience the world is faultless.