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[9] Pratikraman in Varying Situations
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Dadashri: No, you don’t have to look at it that way. It
is true about pratikraman. The importance is given to
pratikraman. You are free from your responsibility when you
do pratikraman. Once you do pratikraman, you are home
free regardless of the state of the other person.
Questioner: When I apologize directly to the one who
works under me, you would not believe how it goes to his head.
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Dadashri: There is not need to say anything to him. When
you inadvertently say something hurtful, do you not repent it?
When you repent your actions, you are doing pratikraman.
Then you are not responsible at all. That is why ‘we’ have said
that we will take on your responsibility, because if you do this
much, then the responsibility is no longer yours. After that, ‘we’
know how to defend that. You are within the law of Nature if
you do this much. And then ‘we’ know how to deal with whatever
occurs. Do you understand that? We can handle it. But at least
do what ‘we’ tell you to; then it is more than enough.
If a person becomes so depressed that he feels like
committing suicide because of what you said to him; if you find
yourself in that state, then you should continue doing pratikraman
for half and hour to an hour that, ‘Why did I have to get in such
a situation? I became a nimit (instrument) for this?’ Then the
responsibility is no longer yours. So do not be afraid. If you
abide by what ‘we’ say up to this point, then ‘we’ will take the
responsibility of it with the ‘higher courts.’ ‘We’ will take care
of any dispute that arises thereafter. But you have to go as far
as this; it is more than enough. Deal with whatever is in your
karmic debt (hisaab); do not dwell too deeply into it.
The Protective Fence of the Gnani Purush
Very rarely do ‘we’ end up hurting a person even though
‘we’ do not wish to. Now generally, this does not occur, but it
happens towards a rare person. In the last twenty years or so,