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[21] Faults of Prakruti Will Depart This Way...
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Pratikraman
lighten the karma and after that. You will be able to remain the 'Knower' and the Seer' of the effect. You must do continuous pratikraman for this type of karma.
With whatever force the karma became solid, a corresponding force of repentance will be needed for its pratikraman.
The Burden of the Old Mistakes
gave rise to it, and it will be destroyed with pratikraman; that is all
Questioner: I make a firm resolution with absolute sincerity that I do not want to make the same mistake again. Despite this, the same mistake will occur, will it not? Is it in my hands?
Dadashri: Yes, it will occur again. For example, if I have a ball and I throw it, once I throw that ball, it will not stop bouncing even if I wish for it to stop. Throwing the ball was just a single action, but after throwing it, if I say that I do not wish to throw it, and I tell it to stop bouncing, will it stop?
Questioner: No, it will not. Dadashri: Then what will occur? Questioner: It will continue to bounce three or four times.
Questioner: There is a lingering burden of what has occurred in the past.
Dadashri: You should throw the burden of the past aside. Why would You want to carry that burden? The burden will remain if it affects You.
Questioner: The burden of the old mistakes is felt. Dadashri: How old a mistake?
Questioner: A month or two old.
Dadashri: What is so big about it? Just do pratikraman, what else can you do?
Questioner: I do pratikraman but I can see the mistake exactly.
Dadashri: It is the prakruti that you are seeing. The prakruti will not go away. What does prakruti mean? It is like layers of an onion; after you get rid of one mistake, a second one appears, then the third. It is the same mistake with many layers for which you have to do pratikraman.
Dadashri: So it has gone out of my hands and into the hands of nature. Nature will make it still. That is how all this is. All our mistakes fall into nature's hands.
Questioner: Then what benefits are there in pratikraman, once it falls into the hands of nature?
Dadashri: Many benefits; tremendous benefits. Pratikraman has such an impact that if you do pratikraman for someone for one hour, it will bring about tremendous new changes within that person. But the person doing prarikraman must have this Gnan. He must be purified through Gnan. He has to have the experience of, 'I am a pure Soul (Shuddhatma).' Pratikraman will have a tremendous effect. Pratikraman is our biggest weapon.
Can Prakruti Improve? If a person does not have this Gnan, his prakruti will continue to go in the wrong direction throughout the day. But
Questioner: Pratikraman continues, but as long as I do not become free from the mistake, the weight of the burden remains.
Dadashri: You have no choice. There is no other way but doing alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan. Atikraman
