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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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Pratikraman
who is the one that tells 'Chandubhai to do pratikraman?
Dadashri: The pragnya shakti (the awakened energy of the Self) that is within is the energy that does all the work.
Questioner: That which is leaving naturally, it is being halted and being given a home.
Dadashri: If you go deeper than that, you will find mud. This is all circumstantial evidence. Everyone will say that one does not need a blanket in the summer. Everyone will say that but 'circumstantial evidences' will make one use a blanket. What if you are running a fever in the summer? So that is evidence. Evidence cannot be measured by saying, "Why are you asking for a blanket when you said that you will not need it for the summer?' Hey, you! It is because I have a fever, so just give me the blanket. You do not have the understanding. Besides, the Self does not have to do pratikraman. You have to make 'Chandubhai' do pratikraman. When the Self is not the doer of atikraman, why should the Self do pratikraman?
'He Does Not Have To Do Pratikraman
When we give you Gnan, You say, 'I am Shuddhatma'; is that not exact? Yes, then what is left? Your vyavasthit! What does vyavasthit mean? Just keep on seeing what Chandubhai is doing; that is vyavasthit. If 'Chandubhai' causes someone a damage of two hundred thousand, You have to keep 'seeing that. But when you don't understand, then 'we' tell you to do pratikraman. Vyavasthit means to 'see' it exactly as it is; whatever it may be; so then You are free.
You have to do pratikraman because you are facing the circumstances due to your interference-related effects (viparinam). Pratikraman will erase that. The exact scientist does not need to do pratikraman. But people make the mistake of becoming 'Chandulal'; that is why they need pratikraman. A real scientist will never stick his finger, interfere (dakho) in it.
The world is the science.
Not a slightest Contradiction in This
Questioner: Your speech is dependent on the nimit and, therefore, sometimes 'Dada' says to do pratikraman and sometimes he says not to. So what is that?
Dadashri: 'We will never tell you that there is no need to do pratikraman. And if 'we' have ever said that, it is for the circumstances that were of no significance. 'Our speech is circumstance-dependent.
Questioner: That is why this puzzle has arisen. (454) Dadashri: No, there is no need to give rise to that puzzle.
And our statements are never one-sided and they are dependent upon circumstances. They depend on the circumstances of the other person.
Questioner: That is correct.
Dadashri: If a person is likely to get tired, 'we' would go a little further and help him progress. If a person is tired, then what will happen if 'we" put the extra burden of pratikraman on him? 'We would tell him he does not need to do pratikraman and that he may do something else. In this way, 'we' would help him move forward. So 'we' speak according to circumstances. But our main opinion is that one has to do pratikraman.'
Questioner: It is because the other person's enthusiasm does not die..
Dadashri: If he is doing just this much, he will not be able to tolerate it if you give him the burden of pratikraman; then he will drop everything. So 'we' have to say different things to different individuals.
Therefore, if 'we' have said one thing once, and then
