Pratikramana Full Version

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir's Pratikramans
Pratikraman
made the effort. It should take him two hours to do both, right? Therefore, one earns a quarter for his effort. A quarter for one samayik and so would he not get two quarters for two? And our mahatmas do up to hundred pratikraman a day for which they earn a hundred thousand dollars. (Note: The concept of money and the amount is used only as an analogy for understanding).
Lifeless Pratikraman
What should it really be like? What was pratikraman like five hundred years ago? One would ask the maharaj, 'How should I do 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman? In my business, I give them less betel nut for their money. When they come to buy pure salt, I give them impure salt. When they come to buy oil, I give them adulterated oil. I cheat when I weigh things. How should I do pratikraman?' So the maharaj tells him to do devshi pratikraman. Recall the entire day's mistakes and do pratikraman. Do pratikraman for giving less betel nut to Lallu. I gave bad salt to such and such, so I am doing pratikraman for that. I gave contaminated oil to this person, for that I am doing prarikraman. I am doing pratikraman for all the conflict I caused in the shop. So the maharaj tells him to do it at night as devshi pratikraman. The debt is still pending in the karmic book. In doing rayshi and devshi pratikraman, the Kutchhis turned them into people's names. Rayshi, Karamshi, Devshi....!
Rayshi means doing pratikraman for mistakes made in the night. In doing so, people turned it into names of people, so then what is left? Five hundred years ago, this pratikraman was somewhat alive. In the current times, they are worshipping this pratikraman after it has died. Let go of it, you fool! Let go of the dead pratikraman! But then one would say, 'No, this is how we have to worship it! This verily is pratikraman. Everyone is welcome to come there.' You fool, why are you worshipping dead pratikraman?
What kind of fools are you people?! The Lord had predicted this right from the beginning. He knew everything; he knew how people were going to turn out. The Renunciation Necessary for Liberation
And in the Kramic path, people do pratyakhyan but they do not do pratikraman. They take pacchkhan from the Lord, but they do not understand pratikraman at all. They do not even understand pratyakhyan. They take pacchkhan of not eating potatoes and things like that. They take pacchkhan of not eating green vegetables. Those pacchkhan are not for going to moksha. Pacchkhan for moksha are different. Pacchkhan is to say you will never repeat the mistake for which you do pratikraman. We do pratikraman for going to moksha. You will not find such a pratikraman anywhere else. Pratikraman that liberates has never arisen before. True prarikraman does not exist in the Kramic path. There is not a single person at the moment that is doing real pratikraman.
(62) People do collective pratikraman, one pratikraman for all mistakes. The maharaj recites the text written in the Maagdhi language and others just continue listening. So they tell you to rub the 'soap.' but where do I rub the soap? On my garment or on the table? Those pratikramans all go to waste.
When the maharaj makes them do pratikraman, he keeps rubbing the soap on the table and people keep rubbing it on the floor and the tile. No one has done pratikraman. They have taken pacchkhan, but what kind of pacchkhan? Their pacchkhan are, 'I will not eat green vegetables. I will not eat potatoes. I will not eat root vegetables. I will not eat at night.' Vow of not eating at night is pacchkhan to them. This pacchkhan and the path to moksha have nothing to do with each other. Pacchkhan is for the worldly path. In doing that, his next life will improve and he will have many worldly comforts.