Pratikramana Freedom Through Apology and Repentance

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

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Pratikraman
If you hide things from the Gnani Purush, it will hinder you. People do pratikraman in order to bring things out into the open. That man brought so much baggage with him and he came here to confess everything. What happens when you try to hide things? Your faults will remain hidden and they will double.
(P.368)
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You ought to have the same familiarity with pratikraman as you do with a woman. Just as you cannot forget a woman, in the same manner you cannot forget to do pratikraman. All day long you should keep asking for forgiveness. You should make it a habit to ask for forgiveness. Instead you make it a habit to see faults in others. (P.371)
You should start the sacrificial fire of intense pratikraman for whomever you have had excessive atikraman with. You have done so many atikramans. All these problems you have are because you have not done pratikraman.
This pratikraman is my most subtle discovery. If you can understand this discovery of pratikraman, then you will not have any problems with anyone.
Questioner: My list of faults is very long.
Dadashri: If it is long, then for the hundred different kinds of fault with just one person, you should do collective pratikraman. (P.375)
Questioner: It will be better if this drama of life comes to an end quickly.
Dadashri: Why do you say such a thing?
Questioner: You were in this town for twenty days and I was not able to come to even one of your satsang.
Dadashri: Do you have to bring your life to end for that?
Pratikraman
You have come to know 'Dada Bhagwan', through this body of yours, so you should be indebted to it. You must take care of it. You have to take whatever medicine is necessary to care for it. It is through this body that you have met Dada. You have lost countless bodies - all of them were wasted. This body has become a friend because you met Dada through it. It has become a friend so look after it. Tonight do pratikraman for having spoken this way.
25. Understanding The Principles Behind Pratikraman
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Questioner: When we become engrossed in the activities and workings of the relative self, our awareness becomes shrouded and consequently we are not able to discharge our karma completely. The realization comes later on, so is there a way to do pratikraman for this so that we can discharge the karma?
Dadashri: When you do pratikraman, your karmas will become lighter. When they come again, they will be even lighter. But if you do not do pratikraman, then the same burden will return with the same weight. All these are discharge karmas and through repeated pratikramans they will become progressively lighter and then end.
Questioner: You say that atikraman is neutral (does not charge karma for mahatmas) so why is there a need to do pratikraman?
Dadashri: Atikraman is neutral. But when one becomes engrossed in it, one plants the seed (a cause for a new karma). If you do not become engrossed during atikraman then you do not create any causes. Atikraman in itself does not do anything. And with pratikraman, even when you do not become engrossed in it, it will give results. You are the knower of when Chandubhai