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people in their absence anyway. In essence, although their very presence has precipitated these mistakes, they have not put their live signatures on them. The signatures came from your internal attachment and abhorrence.
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Hardware of Pratikraman When you do pratikraman for your entire life, you are neither in the state of liberation nor in this worldly life. When you do prarikraman, you are actually watching a documentary' of your past. As such, you are exposing everything of the past during pratikraman. During that time, there are no interruptions from your mind, intellect, chit or ego. The entire internal mechanism of the mind, intellect, chit and ego (antahkaran) is silent. During that time, only pragnya (direct energy of the Self) is working. The pure Self is not doing anything.
Once a mistake occurs, it gets hidden. Then another layer will come on top of that; then another layer and so forth; this way the mistakes build up in layers. These layers continue to grow and at the time of death, in the final hour, a summary of all these mistakes takes place
When mistakes of the past are seen in the present, it is due to the Light of awakened awareness (Gnan prakash). It has nothing to do with memory (smruti).
Some day, if you are sitting alone and you start to do pratikraman, the experience of the Self will begin to solidify from within. The taste will arise. This is the experience of the Self. The Moment You Accept Your Mistake, It is
Gone Eventually, you will not see anyone's mistakes. You will first see them and then you will do pratikraman. Then you will not see anyone's mistake at all. If you can maintain that the whole night and your book of seeing mistakes is closed, then your work for that day is done. Then you don't have to worry about your liability for that day in the coming life. This Gnan is such that it will bring a satisfactory solution for everything for You. Nothing will be left out. It will clear everything if you do pratikraman for any mistake which hurts anyone. Pratikraman means to return what you had taken before. Your karmic account is cleared when you do pratikraman. So accept your mistake and, when you do that, you are no longer held responsible for that mistake. This is considered a science. It gives you instant results. Cash in hand. That will occur gradually. What we have said does not occur all of a sudden. Accept your mistakes and they will be washed off. Do pratikraman and they will wash away.
That is When Real Pratikraman Will Occur
Questioner: Does pratikraman have any effect on the Soul (the Self)?
Dadashri: No effect whatsoever can touch the Self. There is no effect on the Self. There is absolutely no doubt that the Self exists. It reigns beyond the boundaries of memory and that is why You are able to go beyond the memory. The Self is infinite energy. This energy is called pragnya shakti and it can break through all the layers from the core of the earth. By doing pratikraman, You become filled with a sense of freedom and that freedom is freedom from all attachment and abhorrence. All animosity is naturally broken. And it does not matter if the other person is not there for your pratikraman. Your pratikraman does not require his signature. When you committed the mistakes, no witness was present. You commit most of the mistakes against
When you begin to see everyone in your family as faultless, then you will know that your pratikraman is true. People definitely are faultless; the whole world is flawless. You are bound by your own mistakes, not by theirs. When You understand this, you will
