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[24] Gnan Rescues Those Drowning in the River of ...
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Pratikraman
Dadashri: If you say anything negative, you will not bind any new karma, but you will not be free from the karma either. When can you become free from karma? It is when you clear them according to Gnan. Therefore, it can be resolved with understanding and Gnan. They were bound through agnan (ignorance of the Self) hence we can be free of them if they are resolved through Gnan. Even if you do not like them now, you have to resolve them through Gnan. Come into your state as 'I am Shuddhatma' and keep 'seeing' what occurs; that is how You are to resolve everything. Energies Arise At the Feet of the Gnani
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collective pratikraman. What can you do when so many mistakes occur? It is a warehouse full of mistakes. And, in his mind, he thinks, 'I am something special...I am something special.' You will know exactly what you are when someone insults you!
Solution for the Residual Mistakes
Questioner: If, by mistake, we forget to do pratikraman, will they go away with collective (samuhik) pratikraman?
Dadashri: Yes, collective pratikraman will remove a lot of mistakes. That is the greatest way to quickly remove the balance of pratikraman of many days. On the contrary, that is a better way.
Mistakes Before Gnan Questioner: How can one do "shoot-on-sight' pratikraman for all the mistakes that occurred prior to attaining Gnan?
Dadashri: Those mistakes are thick and therefore, they will keep showing up in the non-Self (prakruti). So you will recognize that they are from the past. You have to do more pratikraman for them.
Questioner: They can be recognized more by a samayik, can they not?
Dadashri: Yes, you can recognize a lot more in samayik. But when this mistake comes before you, it is of the prakruti, so these mistakes were there before. Therefore, you have to do more pratikraman for them. And you don't have to do anything for mistakes you don't have.
(436) You Can Become Free from Karma through
Gnan Questioner: Can karmas be bound after attaining Gnan?
Questioner: What if I do pratikraman? Will that not bring about a quicker resolution?
Dadashri: When? Questioner: When I do Charan Vidhi at Your feet.
Dadashri: No, at that time You are filling energy within. Pratikraman has to be done later on its own. Pratikraman Even at the Time of Marriage
Questioner: I keep on washing and yet there are so many sticky karmas.
Dadashri: Worldly life (sansar) means atikraman. It has to be washed off with pratikraman. Do you not eat regularly, drink and breathe air all day? Similarly, pratikraman has to be done regularly every day.
Did you not feel embarrassed wearing a tassel headgear on the head when you were getting married? Did everyone not get married wearing a tassel that way? Did you not think at that time that you will have to do pratikraman for all that? Now when you have to do collective pratikraman, you find it difficult.
