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Pratikraman
Questioner: But what I am saying is that only liberation
can be the intent behind pratikraman. How can the path of
worldly happiness be applicable to pratikraman?
Dadashri: The meaning of pratikraman is, ‘I am asking
for forgiveness for my wrong actions of today,’ and so that
wrong action is erased and one binds merit karma (punya).
Once merit karma is bound, one is compelled to enjoy its fruit.
Questioner: But the same is applicable in the path of
moksha, is it not? So that is pratikraman and so is this one?
Dadashri: Everyone’s intentions are different. Everyone’s
intentions and goals are different.
Questioner: But pratikraman has to do with one’s
mistakes. Whatever mistakes or wrong actions take place, one
has to do pratikraman. So to cleanse the mistakes means to go
to moksha?
Dadashri: No, it is not like that.
Questioner: How is it? Please explain to me that by
doing one kind of pratikraman we bind merit karma and…
Dadashri: The pratikraman we have here (in the path of
Akram Vignan) is for the intention of attaining moksha. But the
pratikraman that takes place in the worldly life is for erasing
mistakes connected with the worldly life; they are done for the
purpose of attaining worldly happiness. Whatever their intent is
behind doing pratikraman, the merit karma caused will bring
that goal.
Questioner: That is correct. I am trying to understand
that you have talked about two types of pratikraman, in which
the result of one pratikraman…
Dadashri: Not two types of pratikraman; there is only
one type of pratikraman.