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Pratikraman
Questioner: Dada, this pratikraman is a very good thing for us.
Dadashri: Pratikraman will get your work done.
Tonight, starting with all those who are close to you - first your father, then your sister, all the way to the youngest child, your uncles and aunts - do pratikraman for all of them. Then tomorrow, expand that circle to include other family members. In this way, extend it every day. Then do pratikraman for all those you know; this would also include your teachers. Then do pratikraman for all those you know at college. You have to clear accounts with everyone. Relationships you have created in your mind, too, have to be cleared. We will worry later about karmas that have already been bound that will express later.
Do you ever do pratikraman for anyone? You have to do pratikraman for all the bosses you know, bosses you have met, and for anyone you became instrumental (nimit) in hurting.
Will you not have to do pratikraman for all the attachmentabhorrence (raag-dwesh) you have done in the past? And no bliss will come close to the bliss that is experienced while clearing this with prarikraman. Whatever occurred in the past occurred in ignorance, but if you do not wash it off now that you have the Gnan, will it not be like keeping soiled clothes in a suitcase? What will happen?
You have kept a lot in the suitcases, haven't you? Look inside; there may be some clothes with stains on them.
Then take all your friends and all the rest. There is a lot work to be done. Plan it this way and check to see where you still have accounts remaining; and continue doing their pratikraman. Yes, otherwise, what work should you give to the mind? Let it do this pratikraman. This is not for any worldly benefits. For worldly benefits, the businessmen make the mind work by making plans like, 'Next year we will do this, we will
build a warehouse over there, then we will do this or that.' In this way, they will take up several hours. This is How 'We' Attained Closure with the
Universe 'You' can see all the mistakes that "Chandulal' has. What good is this Gnan if you cannot see the mistakes? That is why Krupadudev said,
'I am a vessel of infinite mistakes, oh compassionate One! Without seeing these mistakes of the self, how will I attain
salvation? One has to see his mistakes. There is nothing wrong with having mistakes. Some may have twenty-five mistakes and some may have a hundred. 'We may have two. That is of no significance. You simply have to maintain Your upayog (focused awakened awareness as the Self) and You will continue to see the mistakes. You don't have to do anything else.
You have to tell 'Chandulal' to continue doing pratikraman for the entire family and all the people he has hurt. "Chandulal' must do pratikraman for his countless previous lives in which he had committed mistakes related to attachment (raag), abhorrence (dwesh) and sexuality (vishay). Taking one person at a time, the pratikraman must be done in the way I have shown you. After that, with the same focused awareness (upayog), pratikraman must be done for the neighbors too. After doing this, your burden will lessen. Your burden will not lessen any other way.
This is how 'we' removed all our mistakes with the entire world, and it is how 'we' became free. As long as you see mistakes in 'us,' I do not have peace. So whenever 'we' do pratikraman in this manner, everything over there gets erased. You do not have to do alochana in my presence; You are Shuddhatma (pure Soul) and at that time, 'Chandulal' does
