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long, you should keep asking for forgiveness. You should make it a habit to ask for forgiveness. But instead, you make it a habit to see mistakes in others.
have so much awareness that he will not fail to do 'shoot-onsight' pratikraman. He does not miss seeing a single mistake. That is why all the mistakes go away and one constantly remains kashay-free saiyam). I have told everyone to eat whatever they enjoy, eat all they wish - and yet they remain in saiyam. Such is this path of the Vitarags.
Questioner: How many pratikraman do I have to do?
(428) Dadashri: You eat, drink and breathe all day. That is how you have to do pratikraman the whole day.
Caravans of Pratikraman
The more pratikraman you do, the more mistakes You will be able to see. There are some who can see up to two hundred mistakes at a time. One man once asked me, 'How can I cope with it when I see five hundred to thousands of mistakes every day and that too is not enough. My mind gets exhausted.' That is because that is the kind of stock he has filled. This poor man, on the other hand, does not have any stock. He has stocked only a small shop, whereas the other man has stocked big warehouses. A lot has been emptied.
Questioner: Mahatmas immediately have the inner intent of doing pratikraman when anything occurs.
Dadashri: Immediately. It occurs automatically. It occurs naturally and spontaneously. How many pratikramans do you have to do?
Niruben: Over five hundred every day.
Dadashri: This lady here does up to five hundred pratikramans every day. Some do fifty and some do hundred. As the awareness increases, the more pratikraman one does. This is the path of constant pratikraman.
Questioner: You said that people do up to five hundred pratikramans a day. So which is better, more pratikramans occurring or less?
Dadashri: The more the better. This is nothing but warehouses of mistakes. Krupadudev Shrimad Rajchandra has said, 'I am a vessel of infinite mistakes, oh compassionate One! If I cannot see these mistakes, how will I attain liberation?' How can one overcome these warehouses of mistakes when he cannot even see five mistakes? It is nothing but a warehouse full of mistakes. Therefore, if one does up to five hundred pratikraman daily, then his warehouse of mistakes will empty quicker. For some, fifty mistakes will come out and for others, a hundred mistakes will come out; but they have started to come out.
Questioner: But as one rises higher in awareness (urdhavikaran), the mistakes will begin to decrease, will they not?
Dadashri: There is no need for one to rise higher (urdhavikaran). A mistake will be spotted immediately if there is awareness. And once the mistake is spotted, one does pratikraman right then and there. He will do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan immediately, in the moment. A *shoot-on-sight' pratikraman!
Questioner: After doing so many pratikramans, there will come a time when they will decrease in number, will they not? How can they continue to increase?
Dadashri: It takes a long time for them to go down because
This is a 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman. "Shoot-on-sight' means the mistake is removed with pratikraman the moment it occurs. That is how much awareness one maintains. One will
