Pratikramana Full Version

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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[4] How Amazing is the Awareness of the Gnani Purush!
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Pratikraman
Who are we calling 'tops"? We are not referring to people. Lord Krishna has said that it is the prakruti (the mind-speechbody complex: the relative self, the non-Self) that forces one to dance and spin' and he does, but then he claims 'I danced!' That is what we call as "top. Whatever Lord Krishna referred to as a 'top' is what we are calling a 'top.' The word to describe this phenomenon is a 'top. No one else will use the word "top (bhammarado).
Who would say such things that offend people? I can say them because I know how to do pratikraman. Not only will I say it, but I will also take the medicine for it (do pratikraman). But the world should be rid of all the wrong things. The wrong support and encouragement that was given to the wrong teachers should not be there. Then is there a problem if one does pratikraman? At least such support and encouragement will go away.
(84) If we tell someone, 'You have no sense,' is his state of water lily (adkamadvat) not likely to go away? The water (jad) will fly away and so will the lily (kamad)! Now what do people say? Why don't we test him for a month? Hey, you! You cannot do that, you will go mad in doing that.
at that shop, will you? So is there a problem in doing that?
No one else will teach you to test in this manner. What do people generally feel? They will think, 'What if someone was to do that to me? Whereas I am happy if someone were to test me. If by doing so they become wise, then it is good. But without testing, how long will you keep the fake rupee in your home? If you were to spend that fake rupee, you will not get even a piece of jalebi! This is All There is to the Path of Moksha
The way to liberation is through alochana (recall and confession of wrong action), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (taking a vow never to repeat the mistake and asking for energies for this). What do our mahatmas (Selfrealized in Akram Vignan) do? They do alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan throughout the day. If you were to ask them to do rituals and practice austerities, such as fasting and external penance, they will tell you that they have no need for such austerities because they have peace within; they have no worries and they are content. They remain constantly at peace with themselves and free from all woes and anxieties, undeterred by the external world. So why would they want to complicate their lives by introducing chaos in the form of fasting, etc.? People who are confused do all those complicated penances and other rituals. People who do rituals enjoy doing them and need to do them. That is why I say that penance is for those who derive pleasure from it. Those who have a passion for the worldly life should do penance.
Questioner: People believe that in doing penance, karmas are being discharged (nirjara).
Dadashri: That will never occur. What kind of penance brings about discharge of karma? Internal penance. It is not the penance that is visible to the eye and heard by the ears. That is
So right away you have to test the rupee coin; you have to tap it to see whether it is real or fake (meaning you have to test the guru right away, before accepting him, to see whether or not he has kashays in him). You will know right away. Then you have to spend two hundred rupees after him! That is when you have to tell him that your mind is a little crazy; that will appease him because he thinks that otherwise a good (sane) person will never say such things, and that this man talks this way because he is a little crazy. He knows how to evaluate justice! But at least you got your answer, did you not? What we wanted is not here because here whatever equanimity there was, went out of the window! So then you will no longer stop to sit