Pratikramana Full Version

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir's Pratikramans
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karma for moksha. The other only brings awareness.
Questioner: But they were under the shelter of the Tirthankar Lord, were they not?
Dadashri: Those who took the shelter of the Tirthankar Lords attained moksha. All other people bind merit karma.
Questioner: But does pratikraman not open the path of liberation for one?
Dadashri: The mistakes themselves are destroyed. Questioner: So what other mistakes are created for him?
Dadashri: All kinds. Darshan moha means that new mistakes continue to arise and pratikraman gets rid of them.
Questioner: So pratikraman keeps one in dharmadhyan (absence of adverse internal meditation)?
Dadashri: No.
Questioner: Why is that? Was that not applicable in that time era?
Dadashri: Pratikraman is not the path of liberation.
Questioner: But the intent behind it will bring one on this path, will it not?
Dadashri: Atmagnan-the knowledge of the Self is the path to moksha. Pratikraman will lead to the path of moksha after one attains Atmagnan (Self-realization). After that, every sadhana (efforts of activity necessary to achieve or accomplish a goal) will lead to the path of moksha.
Dadashri: How can all of it be dharmadhyan? Shukladhyan is never there, so how can dharmadhyan be there?
Questioner: Is doing pratikraman not considered dharmadhyan?
Dadashri: That pratikraman (of Akram Vignan, after Self-realization) is of a different kind.
Questioner: What is that?
Dadashri: The pratikraman of Akram Vignan destroys whatever moha (illusion) there is. In doing that pratikraman, that particular moha will not arise again, whereas darshan mohaniya (the karma of illusory attachment, which is there due to 'I am Chandulal'), which exists in the ignorant state, will give rise to another moha. And pratikraman will once again destroy it. With darshan mohaniya, moha will arise again. Pratikraman will again destroy it. It will keep going on in this way.
Questioner: The activities that reduce moha, are you calling that the same thing as reducing mistakes?
Questioner: So will that pratikraman become the cause for him to attain Armagnan?
Dadashri: No, they do pratikraman for their past actions and they do new atikraman due to their illusion or ignorance of the Self (moha). The moha has not ended! The moha continues, does it not? Darshan moha ("I am Chandulal') means to do pratikraman for past wrong actions and destroy them and create new ones. One binds punya (merit karma) when he does pratikraman.
(50) Questioner: That means that the layers of his mistakes become thinner, do they not?
Dadashri: As many subatomic particles (parmanus) as there are in this world, there are that many mistakes. Those mistakes will be settled with this pratikraman.
Worldly people (those who do not have Self-realization) do pratikraman; if some have awareness, and they do both