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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not react or retaliate and if for some reason there is retaliation, he would do pratikraman. Elsewhere, there is no pratikraman or anything of the sort. With Pratikraman, There is No Remainder
One can only go to moksha if his accounts of credit (merit karma), as well as debit (demerit karma), are closed. If there is any credit left over, one will have to take another birth. If there is any debit left over, one will have to take another birth.
Questioner: Is the remainder that of karma or of one's bhaav (one's inner intent)?
Dadashri: Who is the mother of karma? Bhaav is. As long as the mother is there, the children will be there too.
Questioner: Is pratikraman for the purpose of bringing both credit and debit to zero - without a remainder?
Dadashri: Yes, pratikraman is for both, but one will forget about the credit part. That is why you have to keep on doing prarikraman for the credit.
The Path of Lord Mahavir But this is how everything has continued up until now and it has become very old; it is 2500 years old. When something becomes very old, it will become like that, will it not? It is good that they even do it once a year, is it not? What kind of pratikraman do you do?
(68) Questioner: The 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman.
Dadashri: That kind of pratikraman is needed and in order to do this kind of pratikraman, one has to have awareness of the Self (jagruti). Otherwise, how can one do them without awareness? When one does not even realize that a mistake has even occurred, he will forget in a very short time, will he not? If such awareness is not there, pratikraman will not occur. That
is why we bring people into the state of awareness. They are in constant awareness and so they can do the 'shoot-on-sight' pratikraman. If a man loses his grip on the string of his kite, what is the point of shouting and complaining when his kite takes a nosedive?
Questioner: He cannot do anything once he loses the grip.
Dadashri: Such is the state of all humans today. So when 'we' help by putting the string back in your hands, then if it takes a nosedive, all you have to do is pull on the string and it will come back under control. Until then, the situation is not in your hands at all.
When is one considered to have attained the path of Lord Mahavir? It is when one can see hundreds of his faults and does hundreds of pratikramans every day. The knowledge of the Self is way beyond that. But here, one reads four books (scriptures) and then walks around with the intoxication (key) of 'having attained the Self.' He has not attained even a drop of the knowledge of the Self! When knowledge does not progress, intoxication increases. Because of intoxication, one's gnanavaran and darshan-avaran karma cease to be removed. (Gnan-avaran karma is knowledge-covering karma. Darshanavaran is vision-covering karma.)
Pratikraman in the Ignorant State Questioner: How should one do real pratikraman?
Dadashri: Real pratikramans are only of value when I give you the right vision, because without attaining the awareness of the Self (jagruti), it is not possible for anyone to do pratikraman. And such awareness cannot be attained without 'us' giving you Gnan (knowledge of the Self). You will have constant awareness when we give you Gnan. Otherwise, if I tell you about pratikraman and explain it to you, you will still