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Pratikraman
burning down an entire village.
Questioner: But that should be a pratikraman?
People are made to recall the mistakes from their childhood onwards, and wash them off with pratikraman by seeing the pure Self of the person against whom the errors were committed. In doing such pratikraman, which takes about two hours, a large portion of one's major mistakes are erased. (406)
Dadashri: It should be good pratikraman (done with deep remorse and sincerity). The intensity of pratikraman must equal the intensity of the atikraman. Target Specific Individual Pratikramans Are
Best Pratikraman will occur as you see all the mistakes. That is when you will become free. However many pratikraman you do, you are free from that many mistakes. However many are left, you will have to continue doing pratikraman for them.
Questioner: When we ask for forgiveness from all the living beings of the world, then pratikraman is considered done, is it not?
One has to continue doing pratikraman in this manner. In repeating this process, the smaller mistakes will begin to come to mind and they will be washed off. Subsequently, even smaller mistakes will become visible and be washed off. Thus, practically all mistakes are wiped off.
In the two-hour session of pratikraman, you should wash off all past mistakes of this life that have adhered to you. Then when you make a firm decision not to repeat such mistakes again, that is considered pratyakhyan.
Dadashri: When can you consider pratikraman as being done? When it is done individually, one by one.
Questioner: I am trying to get the balance sheet of all the karmas done before attaining Gnan. When will all that come to light?
Dadashri: Do pratikraman when they come into your memory. Do pratikraman for whatever comes in your memory; otherwise, sit in samayik that 'we' hold here for everyone. Sit on that day and 'do' it exactly, and some of it will be washed off that day. In this way, everything will be washed off.
Software of Pratikraman
When you sit down to do pratikraman, you will experience the 'nectar' from within and you will feel very light.
Are you doing pratikraman? Do you feel light (a sense of freedom) when you do pratikraman? Are you doing pratikraman intensely? Recall everyone and do their pratikraman. Start digging and looking for your mistakes and do pratikraman. As you start, you will recollect your mistakes and you will begin to see everything clearly. If you kicked someone eight years ago, you will see that incident too. How do these events come into your recollection when otherwise they do not come even if you try to recall them? The moment you begin your pratikraman, a link is established. Have you tried even once to do pratikraman for your whole life?
Questioner: Yes, once I did. Dadashri: Has anyone told you not to do it again?
Questioner: No, I was doing it recently. One day, all of us sat down to do it.
Such knowledge about prarikraman has never before been disclosed to the world. The world has never read or heard of such knowledge before.
What occurs when I make people sit and do pratikraman?
