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Pratikraman
Pratikraman for What Bothers You
You will not have peace as long as you see others mistakes. When you do pratikraman, this mistake will be erased. You should do pratikraman for every sticky file of raag-dwesh by focused awareness (upayog) and thereby it gets cleaned. It is important to do pratikraman for files due to attachment (raag).
If you are sleeping on a nice comfortable mattress but there are pebbles underneath in it, would it not bother you until you shake it out? In the same manner, pratikraman is called for when things bother you. Pratikraman needs to be done only where there is an internal signal of discomfort and pain. And whatever bothers the other person, he, too, will do the same! Everyone has different kinds of pratikraman.
There are instances where a man will oblige everyone else but in his home he behaves badly, so here he has to do pratikraman. Pratikraman has to be done wherever things bother you, but everyone's pratikraman is different. When anything bothers you, you will realize that you are the one at mistake. Won't it bother you until you do pratikraman for it?
Questioner: It used to bother me a lot.
Dadashri: It bothers you because of past mistakes. We are bound by our mistakes. Whether the bondage is of raag (attachment) or dwesh (abhorrence), you have to do pratikraman for it. If the other person is gentle and straightforward, then you can ask him directly for his forgiveness; even that will clear your account.
When Both the Parties Do Pratikraman
If you have done atikraman towards someone, then all day you should do pratikraman in his name. When both the parties do prarikraman, they can become free of mistakes much quicker. If you both do five thousand pratikramans or more,
then things can be resolved faster. However, if the other person does not do pratikraman, you will have to do ten thousand in order to be free.
(402) Questioner: It bothers me if something like this remains pending
Dadashri: Do not carry around such a burden. Instead, sit down for an hour one day and do collective pratikraman for all your mistakes towards anyone you did atikraman with. Do not go around carrying the burden of an unfinished task.
Questioner: When I sit down to do samayik in the morning, half an hour to three quarters of an hour goes into doing pratikraman.
Dadashri: You should not have such burden at that time. Whenever you do pratikraman, whether it is after fifteen days, a month or a year, then do them all together.
Atikraman of Atikramans In order to take care of one atikraman, a person does greater arikraman and even greater atikraman to take care of that atikraman.
Questioner: So the entanglements keep increasing.
Dadashri: The entanglement increases in such a way that there will never be a resolution. Day and night it torments the owner. That is why human beings cannot become free from their entanglements. And that is why they go into a four-legged life - for the very purpose of becoming free from the entanglements.
Questioner: Meaning, first the atikraman stops. Then while it is halted, one goes into animal life and suffers the effects of the mistakes of karma.
Dadashri: No. To suffer means to repay. Through suffering
