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impression that they do not have to do a thing, including making
resolutions.
Dadashri: No, if they were to ask me, I would tell them
that a resolution is a firm decision. It means that when you
undertake something, you do it in precisely a certain way and
no other. Such is the case with pratikraman.
Questioner: I am unable to do shoot-on-sight pratikraman
when I am under stress, and sometimes it is not until the evening
that I realize that I had made a mistake. Can those mistakes be
erased even though pratikraman is done much later? Would that
still resolve everything?
Dadashri: Yes even if it occurs to you later on, you must
do pratikraman. If you do something wrong, you must do
pratikraman:
If it is not possible to do it immediately, do it after a
couple of hours or even at night. You can also do pratikraman
after a week for all the faults committed throughout the week.
Just do them collectively.
Questioner: But it should be done immediately, right?
Dadashri: There is nothing better than immediate
pratikraman. Most of our mahatmas do shoot-on-sight
pratikraman.
Questioner: Sometimes, even while I think of Dada, or
do aarti, my mind wanders and I lose track of my thought and
I begin to sing something entirely different, but eventually I do
come back to the present.
Dadashri: When that happens, you must do pratikraman.
When you have thoughts, it matters little as long as you are able
to recognize that they belong to ‘Chandulal’. If you can perceive