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[8] Freedom from the Chains of Life-After-Life Accounts
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make up your mind that you want to do good.
Questioner: I used to have a lot of fear before, but not
anymore.
Dadashri: There is no need to talk like this. If he leaves
here feeling bad, he will return the next day feeling good. You
should do pratikraman.
These are all relative relationships; they are not real. If
there is no pratikraman then the relationship will tear apart.
What does pratikraman mean? It means to mend. If you keep
mending even as the other person keeps tearing, the cloth will
last longer. But what would occur if the other person is tearing
and you do the same?
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Questioner: My husband lives separate from me; he has
also taken the children with him. This has occurred because it
should be my karma, right?
Dadashri: Of course, what else? Nothing new outside of
karma effect occurs. This has happened because of failure to do
pratikraman. Things turn around by doing pratikraman.
Pay Off the Accounts with the Checkbook of
Pratikraman
The whole world is a karmic debt (hisaab) and in order
to settle that karmic debt, we have the tool of alochana-
pratikraman-pratyakhyan, whereas the others in the world do
not have any tool to settle this debt with. Are you settling some
of your debt now? All you have to do is settle the accounts, do
you not? What else do you have to do?
No one has the independent power to harass or hurt another
person and no one has the independent power to tolerate. Each
person is merely a ‘puppet’ going about his business on the stage
of the worldly life. With pratikraman, these ‘puppets’ learn to
live in peace and harmony. No matter how insane the other person