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[24] Gnan Rescues Those Drowning in the River of ...
Tonight, do pratikraman for everyone in your family. If you run out of time, then do it tomorrow night. If you still run out of time, then do it the night after that. And when you are done with that, stop and then remember everyone that you know in your town and do their pratikraman. Anyone you have bumped into and have become irritated with, will you not have to cleanse all that? You will have to clear all the 'paperwork.'
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Questioner: What if something occurred many years ago, which I do not even remember?
Dadashri: Something that you do not remember? That will remain just as it is. You will then have to do samayik (to Be the Self and 'see' the self) and it will come to you.
Questioner: Will I be able to recall it in the samayik? Dadashri: Yes, some people can recall all the way back to when they were five years of age.
The Tuber-Free State, after Tubers are Destroyed
Questioner: I have made mistakes during my childhood, during my adult years and even later in life. I can 'see' all that - everything, one after the other.
Dadashri: Now that you have the time, do samayik for an hour every day. You may not find time every day, so do at least one samayik every two days. 'See' faults related to sexuality (vishay). One day, see faults related to violence (himsa) in the samayik. You should arrange to do samayik for all these mistakes. With the grace of this 'Dada,' you will 'see' all the faults in samayik. You will see all the mistakes back to your young age. Those mistakes will wash away as You 'see' them. Even when they are washed away, grab hold of the largest tuber of mistake and keep bringing it back in the samayik every day. So keep doing samayik in this way.
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Pratikraman
Questioner: How would I know whether a tuber is large?
Dadashri: When there are recurrent thoughts about something, that tuber is large. If there is a pile of some lemons here, some oranges over there and some onions over there, you will smell all of them. But 'know' that the pile that smells the most is the largest. Therefore, You will 'know' from within. If you have thought after thought about something, then realize that that stock is large. Make a note of it being number one, another as number two; check to see how many such tubers there are within. Then take each of them in upayog (focused awareness of the Self). Once You 'see', 'know' and do pratikraman, one layer is removed. Some have more than five hundred such layers, some have a hundred layers, some have two hundred layers; but all of them will empty eventually. You have to become nirgranth (free from tubers of kashay and vishay) to attain moksha. Nirgranth means that the inner karmic tubers are gone, only the external tubers remain. And those external tubers belong to 'Chandulal' (the non-Self).
Questioner: Dada, should we arrange for a session of doing pratikraman in Your presence before You go to America?
Dadashri: Yes, we will do it this very evening. We will do it in 'My' presence. I will sit there. We will make everyone do it in 'My' presence. Many years ago, I made some people do pratikraman in My presence for mistakes related to sexuality (vishay). They all went into it so deeply that they could not stop. Their pratikraman continued even when they went home. Even during sleep and while eating, their pratikraman continued. This continued to take place day and night. Then I had to stop it for them. Even when they wanted to stop the pratikraman, it would not stop. Once this machinery of pratikraman is set in motion, it will continue on its own. (390)
Questioner: In pratikraman, Dada says that past mistakes will overflow and no matter how hard you try, they will
