Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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made in their letters to me, but they would write down everything. The moment they confessed to me, they surrendered to me and became one with me and their inner strength grew.
After your confession, I would come to know your faults, and I would continue to do vidhi for those faults. In the present time cycle, is there any shortage of any kind of faults? In this time cycle, you are the one at fault if you look at other people's faults. You should not be looking at anyone's faults but at their positive qualities. What virtues does he have? In this age there will be no virtues left; those with virtues are very elevated mahatmas.(P.358)
All the people, who are close to us and near us, have been with us in past lives and are together with us even now. They are considered our spiritual colleagues. It is with these very people that we have bound some vengeance over lifetimes. So if both the sides were to do pratikraman, their accounts would clear up very quickly. Do not forget anyone. Vengeance is bound more strongly with spiritual aspirants who are your colleagues, and if you do face to face pratikramans, your faults will be washed away. This is the kind of pratikraman we did in Aurangabad. Such pratikraman has never been done before anywhere else in the world. (P.359)
Questioner: Everyone, including the aristocrats was crying
prominent people cry so openly.
Dadashri: They cried openly and fell at the feet of their wives. You must have been there; did you see all that?
Questioner: Yes, I have never seen anything quite like it before.
Dadashri: It could never be anywhere else. Nowhere else is there such an Akram Vignan, such pratikraman - there's nothing like this.
Questioner: And nowhere else is there such a 'Dada'! Dadashri: Yes, nowhere else is there such a 'Dada'.
(P.360) Not having done true alochana is what becomes an obstacle to liberation. There is no problem with the faults. And with true alochana, no problems will remain. And alochana has to be done to a Gnani Purush who is all-powerful. Have you ever confessed your faults in this way? Who could you confess to? Without doing alochana, there is no liberation. Without alochana, who will forgive you? The Gnani Purush can fulfill all one's wishes, because he is not the doer. If he were the doer, then he too would bind karma. But because he is not a doer, he can do whatever he chooses.
You should do alochana to your guru. Your final guru is your 'Dada Bhagwan' (The Self that has awakened within you after Gnan Vidhi). I merely show you the way. Now that I have shown you your final Guru, he will continue to answer your questions and that is why he is ‘Dada Bhagwan'. And until he takes over being your living internal Lord, you may consider this 'Dada' and the Lord within, as your pure Self. When he becomes established within you, the answers will come from within. Ultimately he will be fully enlightened.
(P.367)
Dada.
Dadashri: Yes. What happened in Aurangabaad was amazing. They all wept intensely. Even just one such pratikraman done in a whole lifetime would be adequate.
Questioner: Where else would you find such prominent people crying? It takes a very rare person to make them cry.
Dadashri: You are right. They cried a lot. Questioner: That was the first time I had witnessed such