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[9] Pratikraman in Varying Situations
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because we did atikraman. So if we have hurt the other person
because of our atikraman, is that why we do pratikraman?
Dadashri: Yes, for that very reason. There is no other
reason. Now ‘You’, the Self do not have anything to do with
him anymore. Now You no longer have any worldly dealings
with him. All You have to do is make sure that he (the relative
self) does not hurt anyone. You have to tell whoever the culprit
is to do pratikraman. The Shuddhatma has nothing to clean.
All that has been done.
Questioner: But will we not do such atikraman again?
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Dadashri: It is not that it will not occur again… but
atikraman is a discharge (effect of past causes), so it will be
there. Only those that are there will come out. The question of
whether ‘atikraman should occur or not’ does not even arise.
Whenever You feel that atikraman has occurred, then make
him do pratikraman. If no atikraman is taking place, then you
have to simply continue ‘seeing’ the discharge, nothing else.
Questioner: I have a relative who makes so many
mistakes, so many blunders, that even God would not forgive
him. And then he asks me to forgive him; he keeps on saying,
‘I made a mistake. I made a mistake.’ So what should a man
do?
Dadashri: Man has to grant forgiveness, God cannot
grant forgiveness. God has a weakness. (!) Humans are shrewd.
Because eventually God (nature) will take complete revenge,
then forgiveness will be granted. God is going to punish him for
sure. You do not want to take revenge. You will forgive him;
therefore say, ‘May everything work out well for you.’
The Problem of Recurrent Mistakes
Questioner: Someone does something that hurts me and
then he asks for forgiveness; I forgive him. I forgive him internally