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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
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not attain a human birth again. Be cautious. This is not the rule
of some wishy washy person; this is the rule of the vitarag
Lords. Bribery will not work here. Yes, everyone here knows
that. Falsehood will not work here.
Questioner: Is there a way for it?
Dadashri: If ever this lady (Self-realized person sitting
next to Dada) sitting here has a thought about you like, ‘Why
did this person have to come here and crowd everything?’ She
may get a thought like that but she will not allow you to notice
it. She will keep a smiling face, all the while doing pratikraman
within. To have a negative thought is atikraman. She does five
hundred or so pratikraman a day. There is nothing but mistakes
and yet people have no awareness of it.
Instant Pratikraman is Needed
Seeker: If we do pratikraman for any wrongdoing when
any karma is discharging, we still have to suffer some effect of
that karma, do we not?
Dadashri: Who has to?
Seeker: We do.
Dadashri: Because atikraman occurs, pratikraman
follows. But You cannot do these pratikraman. Even the monks
(sadhus) and ascetics, do not know how to do them; the ‘shoot-
on-sight’ pratikramans have to be done the instant a mistake
is made.
Seeker: We do the pratikraman of rayshi (at morning)
and devshi (at night).
Dadashri: Those pratikramans will not work. What
should pratikraman be like? One should be able to recognize
one’s mistakes the moment they occur and, therefore,
pratikraman should be instant. Despite doing these rayshi and