Pratikramana Full Version

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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authority (parsatta). These living beings are simply 'knowers'.
Therefore, You should only know, and once you know that this Knowership is only Yours, then the faith you had on the wrong things will disappear. Your opinions will change. What kind of changes? Your opinion, 'It is good to tell lies,' will change. There is no higher purusharth than the one which gets rid of such opinions. This is an intense message, which requires profound thinking.
Questioner: Yes, but the entire talk is logical.
Dadashri: Yes. It is logical. It is worthy of deep thinking and what do people say? 'We know it all, but we cannot do it." So what can be done about 'I can't do it? What did he say?
Questioner: 'I am not able to do anything. (102)
Dadashri: This statement of 'I cannot do anything is a grave liability. What liability? The answer is that even in the state of illusion (absence of Self-realization), because there is a presence of the self (the relative atma) within, one becomes whatever one says. One becomes what he envisions (chintavan). One becomes what one contemplates (manan). Therefore, one will be bom either as an animal or a stone; a form which is not able to do anything. So people are not aware of the consequences of saying such things. Have you ever heard people say, 'I cannot do anything'?
done. This is not a simple thing to grasp.
Do you understand this? Is it not better to know than to do'? Is it easy to do anything right away?
Questioner: I understand what you are saying, but surely some things still need to be done having understood all this? Just as we do not possess the power to do anything, do we not also lack the power (satta) to know?
Dadashri: No. You have the power to know.' 'To do is not in your power. This is very subtle, but it will be enough if you understand just this much.
Change the Opinion A young boy has turned into a thief and he would steal at every opportunity. He even steals from guests who come to his house. Hey, you! He stole from the guests even when it left them with no money for their fares to return home. What were the poor guests to do? How could the guest ask for it back? And he could not say anything to the host because if he did, the host would beat the young boy. So then the guest has to borrow some money from someone to return home. What could he do? That young boy stole his money. Now what lesson should we teach this boy? We should tell him to ask Dada Bhagwan (the Lord within) to give him the energy not to steal in this life.
People may question what good it does to ask for the energies or strength on the one hand and still he continues to steal. Let him steal. Is he asking for the energies or not? Yes, he does keep asking for the energies. Only then I know how this medicine is working within him. How can you know how this medicine works?
Questioner: It is true that he has no idea what this medicine is doing. And, therefore, he does not know the benefits in asking for energy.
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: You should never say, 'I cannot do it.' Besides, it is not even that. In actuality there is nothing to be done. Even the simple act of emptying your bowels is not in your hands, so how is it possible for you to do anything else? No such man has yet been bom who has even the slightest energy to do anything. You are to simply know (janavoo) and make a firm resolution (nischay) to remain as the Knower, the Self. That is all You have to do. Once you understand my words, Your work will be