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mistakes, so should I just keep 'seeing' those mistakes? What else do I need to do? (136)
Dadashri: When you see your own mistakes, you can share with some people, but not with certain people. And when you see other's mistakes, deal with them by doing pratikraman. These are the three ways you deal with them. You can either do pratikraman if you see the mistake, and settle it, or if you do not do pratikraman; then who can you show their mistakes? You may show the mistakes of policemen, magistrates, those in a superior position than you; their mistakes. But all those who work under you, those who are dependant (ashrit) on you, you should not show them their mistakes. Did you understand?
Tell 'Chandubhai' to Do Pratikraman Instantly
Everyone is full of mistakes. So there will be all kinds of mistakes made, will there not? No one, without exception, is free from mistakes. To point out mistakes in others is the work of a fool. Do you like to point out other's mistakes?
Questioner: To 'see' a mistake of anyone is a mistake and when it occurs, am I to do pratikraman for it?
Dadashri: When 'he file one' sees mistakes of others, he should stop right there and tell 'Chandubhai' (the non-Self), 'Oh, ho ho, do you still see mistakes of others? Do pratikraman for that.' Doing this is considered as having seen your own mistake. If you do this fifty times a day or so, that is more than enough.
You have no right whatsoever to see mistakes of others. If you do, you should do pratikraman. 'Chandulal' is adept at seeing mistakes in others. It is nothing new. This habit is not easy to break, but through pratikraman it will eventually cease. When he sees mistakes in others, You should immediately make him do pratikraman, which is 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman.
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Nischay Here Means to Follow This and Not That
Questioner: I am not yet able to do the kind of pratikraman that is called for.
Dadashri: You should make a firm resolution (nischay) for whatever you want to do.
Questioner: To do the 'nischay' involves the ego of 'doership,' does it not? What is that? Can you please explain?
Dadashri: That is merely use of words, just to say it.
Questioner: Many of the mahatmas are under the impression that they do not have to do a thing, including making nischay (firm resolution).
Dadashri: No, if they were to ask me, I would ask them how they can make that resolution (nischay) without the ego. That nischay is a decision. It means that when you undertake something, you do it in a certain way and not the other way. We cannot say that it is a wrong belief, can we? But we can get the idea across through the medium of words, otherwise they would not understand, would they? And yet, this reaches them.
Can Pratikraman Be Done Later?
Questioner: I am unable to do 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman when I am under stress, and sometimes it is not until the evening that I realize that I have made a mistake. Can those mistakes be erased even though pratikraman is done much later? Would that still resolve everything?
Dadashri: Yes, even if it occurs later on, you should do pratikraman. If you do something wrong, you should do pratikraman.
Questioner: After attaining Self-realization, when atikraman occurs, alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan
