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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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Bails and Bails of Mistakes
vision of a Gnani. If one appears at fault (doshit), that is a mistake of our own vision (drashti); it is our own raag-dwesh.
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Questioner: Pratikraman should be done only if a mistake has occurred, is that not so?
Dadashri: There is nothing but mistakes. One is full of mistakes (aparadha). He is indeed covered with mistakes. Even those at the fourth gunasthanak (spiritual level) are considered to be with mistakes. One has not become without mistakes (niraparadhi) at all, not even for a moment.
If anyone appears at fault, it is all egoism; it is all raagdwesh (attachment-abhorrence). If someone were to slap us, to 'us' he would appear flawless (nirdosh).
Questioner: I regret a lot after seeing someone at fault. But it still happens again.
Dadashri: Repenting begins to wash off whatever mistakes are created against him. Whatever mistake you created, it will wash off.
One becomes niraparadhi only when he attains the Self. When one becomes niraparadhi, it means that the ego (ahamkar) and my-ness (mamata) is gone. But the neighbor ("Chandulal,' non-Self complex) is aparadhi. So then here 'we' have separated everything into two parts, the prakruti (the nonSelf) and the Purush (the Self). Having become the Purush (the Self), You are letting the prakruti know that, 'You are my neighbor. That is why I advise you to do pratikraman for the atikraman you do.'
The world cannot see others as nirdosh (faultless). To the world, the court system is the only place to resolve faults. Otherwise, everyone appears as doshit, at fault; whether it is his father or his mother, regardless of who it is, they all appear at fault.
You haven't seen anyone at fault, have you?
Questioner: Fundamentally, everyone is nirdosh; I understand that much but the 'seeing mistakes' starts again sometimes. But at the same time, pratikraman starts instantly.
So all this occurs naturally, does it not? This Gnan is such. And then we have the Agnas. So the Agnas will take it up and get things done. The Self does not have to do anything. With our Agnas, everything can be done. Therefore, this file (file number one) will not see the other file at fault (doshit). No man appears as deshir (at fault) to 'us' whatsoever. Whether he offers flowers or throws stones, he is flawless. This Akram Science is available very rarely, once in a million years. Mistakes Are Washed Through Repenting
Insistence (aagraha) is the greatest poison. Insistence in any matter is poisonous. We do not have any insistence (niragrahi). Whatever part of you becomes free from insistence (niragrahi), that much has been corrected.
Not a single living being is at fault in this world; that is the
Dadashri: So then they get washed off. Whatever mistake occurs, it gets washed off. When a mistake occurs and You can *see it and you wash it off, that itself is the process of seeing the world as nirdosh (faultless). You have to do that. Even for *us', 'we' have to do this pratikraman.
Questioner: When we do pratikraman, does that mean we are adjusting again?
Dadashri: It occurs automatically. There are some people who do a hundred to six hundred pratikramans a day. They do pratikraman for the atikramans they do.
