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PREFACE Please note that Pujya Dr. Niruben Amin wrote the entire preface of the Pratikraman Book in poetry form in couplets. The translation of this in English is devoid of the rhyming words in many places. Here is the message of the preface is preserved as a preference over the rhyming words.
PART 1 PRATIKRAMAN
Unity of mind speech and body, is the worthy goal of life; When that is broken, Akram Vignani's pratikraman is the solution in life!
Dada shows the proper method of doing pratikraman; Connect directly with the Soul of the other, with 'Dada Bhagwan' as the
witness! Announce the faults in your heart, ask for forgiveness, repent heartily; Decide that 'I won't repeat it', then the faults are cleansed simply! Doing good karma is religion, doing bad karma is non-religion;
Beyond religion and non-religion, lies Self-religion! Good karma gives credit and this brings the result as happiness, Bad karma gives debit and this brings the result as unhappiness!
When 'credit-debit' is zero, Self-bliss prevails; The first two increase worldly entanglements, the third brings Liberation! With the Lord within Dada Bhagwan' as witness, repentance is done heartily; This science becomes effective, for every ailment there is a remedy!
While eating-drinking, bathing-walking, speaking-laughing:
If no one is hurt, these natural interactions are called 'kraman'! All that cause hurt to others through attachment-abhorrence, are atikraman; To turn back from these is known as the process of pratikraman!
Anger-pride deceit and greed, all are nothing but atikraman; They all go away instantly, when for them you do pratikraman!
Atikraman through attachment-abhorrence affects both; By doing pratikraman for them, the effect is resolved in both!
A stained cloth and its washer, there is trouble for both; Kraman affects no one and everyone acts in natural mode!
Every embodied Soul routinely projects endlessly; Mere hearing of communal riots, third world war is imagined! Innumerable fractions exist in one second where one does endless atikramans Atikraman creates worldly life and it comes to the end by pratikraman!
If the insulter is seen as wrongdoer, that is atikraman; If speech was harsh, act was wrong, that too is atikraman!
If the children are beaten, that is atikraman; Feeling, 'why did he swear at me?' is also atikraman!
If anyone feels hurt by you, it is atikraman; Remember Dada there, and do instant pratikraman! No intent is there at all in your heart to hurt the other person; Yet you are instrumental in the hurt, hence Dada gave this great discourse!
If one is hurt with or without your knowledge, this is atikraman; If his face doesn't show but mind was disturbed, this too is atikraman!
Any embodied Soul hurt through mind-speech-body;
Instantly, heartily and certainly, do its' pratikraman properly! What decreases karma's load is religion and what increases it is non-religion; No new karma is bound by doing pratikraman and that is supreme religion!
Ask for energy to advance higher, pray heartily,
Pray to Gnani, Self, guru, God's idol or a deity! Shout out for forgiveness for the purpose of cleansing faults; Small faults will be gone and Samayik will dissolve the knots! How can there be freedom from sinful karma of endless times?
This happens when one inscribes Gnani's knowledge to heart! If this is not available, find what is revealed in the scriptures; Revealed creates intellect-wisdom that annuls sinful karma!
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