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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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Pratikraman
This is a Scientific Discovery
Questioner: If I have done something wrong and I know about it, and do pratikraman for it, then how does pratikraman make me free? Do I become free from the liability of that mistake?
Dadashri: The mistake that occurs is an effect of past karma. It is a result. So what was the cause (bhaav) behind it? Those causes were bad, and that is why you do pratikraman for the causes and not for the result-effect. The result in this life can be anything. So this is how You get rid of all the mistakes.
Questioner: So pratikraman is for the causes?
Dadashri: Yes, pratikraman destroys the causes, not the results (effect). Did you understand that?
We hurt someone, then we do pratikraman. Hurting him is an effect. It is a result. The intention (bhaav, irado) to hurt him was the cause in the past life). So by doing pratikraman, that intention is destroyed - and that is why pratikraman destroys the causes. Otherwise, whatever occurs is a result and, by doing pratikraman, it is cleared. This is a scientific discovery!'
Questioner: How does pratikraman that cleanses our mistakes and brings us in our pure form work? Does that pratikraman reach the other person's Shuddhatma and wipe everything clean? What is it?
"Hey, you! You have no sense.'
Questioner: We, too, feel joy when you scold us.
Dadashri: That way, some people's atikraman will give happiness to others. The Beauty and Exactness of Akram Vignan
Questioner: Many times, a lot of churning occurs in the mind.
Dadashri: You have to keep seeing it. (490)
Questioner: Then I do pratikraman and the problem starts all over again.
Dadashri: Keep 'seeing' also the one who is doing the pratikraman.
As much of the continuous state of knowledge-vision (gnan-darshan) that accumulates, that much conduct (charitra) of the Self will arise.
Now, where will that experience (anubhav) arise? By *seeing discharging illusory effect (charitra moha), the experience of the Self (anubhav) occurs. So the experience 'sees' everything that "Chandubhai' is doing.
Questioner: What about a bad thought that arises when I am seeing the charitra moha (discharge) of 'Chandubhai'?
Dadashri: A bad thought that arises is also charitra moha.
Questioner: Does it go away merely by 'seeing it continuously, or do I have to do pratikraman for it?
Dadashri: Pratikraman is not to be done. Pratikraman is for when after everything is over, and You feel that atikraman has occurred, then You tell 'Chandubhai', 'Do pratikraman.' You (the Self) do not have to do it; the one who did the
Dadashri: It is like this: if you press the button, the light will come on and if you press the button again, the light will go off. Similarly, if you have made a mistake and you do pratikraman, the mistake stops.
Unique Atikraman of Dadashri Questioner: Does atikraman ever give anyone happiness?
Dadashri: Yes, one will laugh even when 'we' tell him,
