Pratikramana Full Version

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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[6] The Thorns Vanish and the Blossoms Remain
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Pratikraman
Dadashri: That which is above kram-akram is parakram (extraordinary spiritual effort). For now, at least do pratikraman. Parakram will come when it does. It is a very big 'station and it is very long. If you wait for it, then you will miss out on this Akram.
For the time being, do pratikraman. As yet, you still have to do pratikraman for the aakraman, so how are you going to be able to do parakram?
Questioner: But there is a need to do parakram against aakraman, is there not?
Dadashri: You have to do pratikraman against the aakraman. Parakram is beyond the two, kram and akram. Where did you 'steal this word 'parakram' from?
Questioner: I read it in Aptavani Six.
Dadashri: Is that so! We have a very good tool of pratikraman. You have to do pratikraman for your obstinacy (aadayee). There is tremendous energy in pratikraman. You do not enlist the 'army of pratikraman,' do you? If you did, then you would win. Can a whole army win or not? Kraman Creates and Atikraman Proliferates
Prakruti
Dadashri: All this has arisen due to atikraman and it will stop with pratikraman.
Questioner: The entire prakruti (the complex of thoughts, speech and action, the non-Self) has arisen out of arikraman, has it not?
Dadashri: Prakruti has arisen out of doership in normal action (kraman) and through atikraman it has proliferated.
Questioner: The entire prakruti proliferates with atikraman.
Dadashri: The proliferation decreases with pratikraman and as a result, one will become aware.
Questioner: The prakruti proliferates with atikraman, then after that comes aakraman; that is what you call it, right? What occurs with aakraman? Are atikraman and aakraman through attack?
Dadashri: That is atikraman, is it not? Questioner: It is heavier than atikraman, is it not?
Dadashri: No, this is all the same. Little aakraman and big aakraman; it all falls under aakraman, and that is called atikraman.
Questioner: Whether it is a little or big aakraman, is it all atikraman?
Dadashri: Yes.
No One is Wrong in This World!
Dadashri: But he asked a good question. A question has to be asked and understood scientifically in order to have a solution. Otherwise, there will be no solutions.
What I am saying is, say you go to do darshan of someone but when you get there you feel, 'I expected this person to be
Questioner: Actually, pratikraman is important in every way, is it not? Because whether a person understands or not, whether he can see his mistakes or not, whether he has knowledge of what to do or not, pratikraman will automatically bring about a solution, will it not?
(116) Dadashri: All this has arisen because of atikraman, and if one wants to go to his own country' (domain of the Self), then he has to do pratikraman. Is that not easy? Is it easy or is it difficult?
Questioner: It is very easy.