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Pratikraman
Amazing Yearly Pratikraman in Aurangabad
'We do not generally use this vidhi (special innerenergizing message and prayers of the Gnani Purush to higher powers) anywhere else. In Aurangabad, 'we' did a vidhi to wash away mistakes of countless past lives of mahatmas. It was an hour of pratikraman after the vidhi in which everyone's ego was dissolved. 'We used to do this pratikraman vidhi once a year. There were about three hundred or more people there and they wept intensely after the vidhi. All their internal weakness of kashay dissipated. Even the husbands prostrated at the feet of their wives and asked for forgiveness. Bondages of so many lives were washed away.
Pratikraman for Missing Applied Focused
Awareness Who would let go of such a wonderful science once he has attained it? Before, one could not maintain focused, awakened awareness of the Self (upayog) even for five minutes. One had great difficulty in doing a forty-eight minute samayik, whereas here, no matter where you go, it is possible for you to maintain upayog. That is what has occurred.
Questioner: I understand that, Dada.
Dadashri: Now, obstruct the mistakes a little by doing pratikraman. Before you leave home, make a decision that, *Today I want to remain in pure awareness (shuddha upayog).' If you don't make that decision, You will miss the upayog. Our science is very good; there is no other problem.
If You feel that you did not stay in the pure awareness and went off on the wrong path and became one with 'Chandulal,' then you should do pratikraman for losing the awareness as the Self. Taking the wrong path means a waste of time and energy, but there is no loss from this, because it does not hurt anyone and so pratikraman is not necessary. You still have one more life to go, so you need not worry about this for the time being. But those who absolutely want to remain in awakened awareness should do pratikraman. Pratikraman means to turn back. One has never before tumed back, has one?
Questioner: Does doing pratikraman send a clean reflection in the future?
Dadashri: Of course, everything will become clear. The vision (darshan) becomes clean and it will increase. No one has ever attained moksha without doing pratikraman. When one does pratikraman, his mistakes decrease and gradually come to an end.
In Aurangabad, a major vidhi had to be performed each year to clean the minds of mahatmas and their worldly interacting selves. 'We would perform a major vidhi and let it flow and then everyone's minds became clear. During that time, everyone's minds became very clean; they were not even aware of what they were writing in their confession letter to us, but they wrote down everything. The moment they confessed everything to 'us,' they surrendered themselves and became one with 'us' (abheda bhaav). Their inner energy grew.
After you confess, 'T' would come to know your mistakes and I would continue to do the vidhi for those mistakes. In the present time cycle, is there any shortage of mistakes? In this time cycle, you are the one at mistake if you look at another person's mistakes. You should be looking at the positive qualities of the other person and not at his mistakes. You should know and
see' his virtues. In this age, there will be no sillak (useful inner energy which helps the self and others; the state free of kashays). Those who have any sillak are these mahatmas.
Enmity with Spiritual Colleagues Pratikraman done with the Gnani Purush's Agna will
