Pratikramana Full Version

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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[1] The True Nature of Pratikraman
Pratikraman
This is the science of the vitarags, the fully enlightened Ones. Arikraman takes you to a birth in the lower life forms, while pratikraman will take you into a higher life form. Only pratikraman will help you until you attain final liberation.
Who does not need to do pratikraman? The one who does no atikraman.
Recognizing Atikraman Questioner: We have no intention of hurting anyone and yet we become instrumental (nimit) in hurting people. So is it necessary to form an opinion that we have to do pratikraman for the atikraman we do?
a way you understand. You understand that you did wrong and you have to decide not to do it again. You should vow not to do that again. If it still occurs again, if you repeat the mistake again, then you should repent again. As soon as you become aware of the mistake, you should repent and that much of your mistake will be destroyed. In the end everything will gradually come to an end.
How can you consider it a dharma (religion; rightful action) when it cannot destroy karma which creates further bondage? When can new karma stop? They can stop with pratikraman.
Asking for Energies to Rise Higher
Dadashri: If something you said or your action hurt someone, you are considered to have done atikraman. You have to do pratikraman for that. You have erred by doing atikraman and, therefore, you will bind karma.
Questioner: If the other person is just a nimit, then why should he feel hurt? Then what is the need for pratikraman?
Dadashri: You have to do pratikraman if he is hurt by you. It is not considered atikraman if he is not hurt by you. Therefore, you do pratikraman only if atikraman occurs.
All this eating, drinking, talking, etc., is kraman. Kraman is going on the whole day long. Getting up early, getting up late is all kraman.
Questioner: How and from whom should we ask for energies to rise higher within?
Dadashri: You can ask for the energies from your own Shuddhatma (pure Soul) or from the Gnani Purush. And those who are not Self-realized should ask for energies from their guru or from whatever God they believe in. You should make a list of all wrong you see within and ask for the energy to overcome them. Through faith, or with Gnan (enlightened knowledge), decide what is definitely wrong and then do pratikraman for it; ask for the shakti (energy) from the Gnani Purush that it should not be so. Then the mistakes will go away.
Large tubers of mistakes can be dissolved with samayik (to Be the Self and to see the self) while other minor mistakes can be removed with prayer (pratikraman). Mistakes that have arisen in absence of prayer or pratikraman can be removed through prayer. All this atikraman has arisen due to ignorance of the Self. Paudgalik shakti (energies of the physical matter, energies of the non-Self) can be overcome through prayer (pratikraman). It is easy to slip down and difficult to climb up because paudgalik shakti is involved in slipping.
If someone was to get up right now and start swearing at someone, you will all think, 'Why did he have to do arikraman when everything was going on smoothly?' That is called atikraman. When you hurt someone's feelings, that atikraman may be spontaneous and natural, yet you have to do pratikraman for it. Even if you do not utter a word through your mouth but your mind becomes negative towards him, then too you have to do pratikraman. Pratikraman means to ask for forgiveness in