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Questioner : Dada , this pratikraman is a very good thing for us .
Dadashri : Pratikraman will get your work done .
Tonight , starting with all those who are close to you – first your father , then your sister , all the way to the youngest child , your uncles and aunts – do pratikraman for all of them . Then tomorrow , expand that circle to include other family members . In this way , extend it every day . Then do pratikraman for all those you know ; this would also include your teachers . Then do pratikraman for all those you know at college . You have to clear accounts with everyone . Relationships you have created in your mind , too , have to be cleared . We will worry later about karmas that have already been bound that will express later .
Do you ever do pratikraman for anyone ? You have to do pratikraman for all the bosses you know , bosses you have met , and for anyone you became instrumental ( nimit ) in hurting .
Will you not have to do pratikraman for all the attachmentabhorrence ( raag-dwesh ) you have done in the past ? And no bliss will come close to the bliss that is experienced while clearing this with pratikraman . Whatever occurred in the past occurred in ignorance , but if you do not wash it off now that You have the Gnan , will it not be like keeping soiled clothes in a suitcase ? What will happen ?
You have kept a lot in the suitcases , haven ’ t you ? Look inside ; there may be some clothes with stains on them .
Then take all your friends and all the rest . There is a lot work to be done . Plan it this way and check to see where you still have accounts remaining ; and continue doing their pratikraman . Yes , otherwise , what work should you give to the mind ? Let it do this pratikraman . This is not for any worldly benefits . For worldly benefits , the businessmen make the mind work by making plans like , ‘ Next year we will do this ; we will