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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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Pratikraman
make a phone call' to the pure Soul of the other person, it reaches Him immediately, and his pure Soul also passes your 'phone message' on to his pudgal non-Self complex. Pratikraman has to be done with living beings, not with the jada inanimate, non-living).
Questioner: 'You are the Self (Shuddhatma)', so the Self does not have to do pratikraman. When one does atikraman, it is not directed towards the pure Soul (Shuddhatma); it is directed towards the other person's pudgal. So when I ask for forgiveness in pratikraman, do I have to ask for it from the other person's Shuddhatma or his pudgal? (460)
Dadashri: The forgiveness has to be asked from the Shuddharma. But who is asking for forgiveness? The pudgal. And you have to ask for forgiveness from the Shuddhatma of the other person: 'Dear Shuddhatma Bhagwan, with you as a witness, I am asking for forgiveness.'
Pratikraman Even of the Pudgal
Questioner: The pratikraman we do is it of the pudgal or of something else?
Dadashri: It is only of the pudgal, the non-Self complex, who else?
Questioner: It is of the pudgal! So can similar pratikraman be done for my own pudgal too?
Dadashri: It has to be done for verily your own pudgal. You do pratikraman of the other person if you have hurt the other person's pudgal. Otherwise, you have to do pratikraman of your own pudgal, do you not?
Questioner: Who does the pratikraman of our pudgal?
Dadashri: All that is done by 'our' pragnya shakti (the energy that takes the awakened one in Akram Vignan to final
liberation); pragnya shakti makes 'Chandubhai' do it.
Who Tells Us To Do Pratikraman?
Questioner: But, Dada, in the pratikraman vidhi we say, 'Dear Shuddhatma Bhagwan, who is completely separate from the mind, body and speech...,' do we not? So then how can we say it is of the pudgal?
Dadashri: You are asking for forgiveness from the Shuddhatma for the mistake you made.
Questioner: But we have to ask for forgiveness (maafi) from the Shuddhatma and do pratikraman of the pudgal?
Dadashri: No. Pratikraman and forgiveness are the same thing. You have to ask for forgiveness from his Shuddhamma saying, 'I have made a mistake with your pratishthit atma (the relative self, the one wrong belief); for that I am asking for forgiveness.'
Questioner: The one who has not received the Self in Akram Vignan, the one who has not taken Gnan, does he have to do pratikraman the same way?
Dadashri: He cannot do that. It will not work. The one who has not taken Gnan has to apologize in a simple, standard way.
Questioner: What if I have taken Gnan and the other person has not, what then?
Dadashri: No problem with that. There is no problem if the other person has not taken Gnan. You can still do the pratikraman.
Questioner: Who tells 'Chandubhai,' from within, that you have made a mistake so do pratikraman? Who is the one saying that?
