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Pratikraman
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Self, they will not attain liberation, and their faults will continue
to occur. The faults one does pratikraman for will be erased.
But today, let alone shoot-on-sight pratikraman, people
cannot even manage to do pratikraman at the end of the day,
once a week or even once a month. It is done once a year and
even then, without any understanding. They just make a fashion
parade out of it. No one actually does the real pratikraman and
therefore his faults keep increasing. One can only call it
pratikraman if his faults decrease.
If ever this lady (Self-realized person sitting next to Dada),
sitting here has a negative thought, she would not allow you to
notice it. While she manages to smile, she is doing pratikraman.
She does more than five hundred pratikramans each day. A
single negative thought is atikraman. People are not aware of
how much atikraman they do throughout their day.
Questioner: That is all bhaav-pratikraman (intent and
feelings). One cannot do kriya-pratikraman (pratikraman through
action) right?
Dadashri: No, there is no pratikraman through action.
Pratikraman is an internal process. There is no action-oriented
pratikraman.
Questioner: Can you explain what dravya (effect)-
pratikraman is and what bhaav (cause)-pratikraman is?
Dadashri: Your inner intentions should be, “This should
not be so.” That would be called ‘bhaav-pratikraman.’ In dravya-
pratikraman, you actually have to utter each and every written
word. It becomes a ritual. It is an effect.
The way pratikramans are done today, it would find
everyone in jail if the Lord were to be present here. Pratikraman
is to ask for forgiveness for each and every fault and to clear