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Pratikraman
this is the karmic stock accumulated over infinite past lives. He Will End Up Becoming and Being a God
Niruben has been doing more than five hundred pratikramans daily for years and today most of the mistakes have come to an end. There is nothing else to be done. All one has to do is get in the Agna and do the shoot-on-sight' pratikraman. If someone comes here and inside you feel, 'Why did he have to come when it is so crowded here? With this, you just did disrespect (viradhana) and, therefore, his Self within knows that. Do you understand that? So you should immediately say, 'Chandubhai, why did you have such an intent (bhaavna)? You did atikraman and so do pratikraman.' Do you understand this?
This is the path of pratikraman. It is the path of alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, a path of 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman. You will be able to see three hundred to four hundred mistakes daily. The one who can see only one of his own mistakes, can become a God. And if there were no mistakes in man, then there would be Gods everywhere. Any man who becomes flawless is a God.
prarikraman. Some people say that they did two hundred pratikramans. How do they do them?
Dadashri: It is like this: as one goes deeper, he is able to see more mistakes.
Questioner: I can only see my own mistakes.
Dadashri: That is because you have now been given the Gnan; otherwise, you could not see your mistakes before, could you? You can see them now, can't you? You can see them now and so you have to ask for forgiveness for the ones You see'. You begin to see the mistakes as you do pratikraman. Some can see' twenty-five mistakes daily, some can see' fifty mistakes and some can see' a hundred mistakes. It is possible for one to see' up to five hundred mistakes a day; such is the vision that can open up. The darshan (vision as the Self) will continue to open up.
If he is talking to you, he may use harsh words. But at the same time he can see his mistake that he did something wrong. And can you see mistakes, or not?
Questioner: Yes, I can see my mistakes. Dadashri: Then You are blessed, are you not?
What kind of pratikraman do our mahatmas do? They do instant, 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman. Then the mistake does not arise, does it?
Questioner: Do I have to recite the full long special ceremony (vidhi) of pratikraman or can I shorten it and do it with positive inner intent?
Dadashri: Do it in short with the inner intent (bhaav). We write *dravyakarma (effect karma), bhaavkarma (cause karma) and nokarma (neutral karma; gross discharging karma) and all that in the pratikraman vidhi, however, you can shorten it and that is acceptable.
Your work is done. Still, as the energy of the awareness increases, You will be able to see more mistakes. For now, You 'see' gross (sthool) mistakes. Then You will be able to see subtle (sookshma) mistakes. Whatever mistakes You see,' they are gone. The rule is that whatever mistakes lie within the moment You see them, they leave. Like the analogy of a robber entering your home while you are sleeping. What occurs when you wake up? The robber will run away the moment you wake up. Similarly, these mistakes will get ready to leave the moment you wake up!
(430) The Shortest and Methodical Pratikraman
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