Pratikraman: Freedom Through Apology & Repentance (Abr.) (In English) Pratikraman: Freedom Through Apology & Repentence | Page 100

Pratikraman 87 certain things? For that you must continue your pratikraman. Understand that despite doing pratikraman, if you remember things, it means that they are still pending and require more pratikraman. It is because of your attachment and abhorrence that you remember things. If they did not come to mind, you would forget the mistakes you have made. Why do you not remember the people you met in passing, but you remember the loved ones who are now dead? It is because you still have some pending attachment. Doing pratikraman will dissolve this attachment. Desires come to you because you have not done pratyakhyan and past events come to your mind because you have not done pratikraman. Questioner: Is pratikraman to be done for the ownership claimed? Dadashri: For ownership you have to do pratyakhyan. For the faults there is pratikraman. Questioner: Even after doing pratikraman, if the same faults come to mind, does it mean that we are not free of those faults? Dadashri: The faults are like onion layers. As you peel the outer layer of an onion, there is yet another layer beneath. These faults have many layers. With each pratikraman you do, one layer is shed. In this way when you do a hundred or more pratikramans, the fault will eventually go. Some faults will go away after five pratikramans and some may require more. A fault requires as many pratikraman as the number of layers it has. The longer it takes for pratikraman, the bigger and heavier the fault. Questioner: Explain what you mean when you say that,