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Hardware of Pratikraman
When you do pratikraman for your entire life, you are
neither in the state of liberation nor in this worldly life. When you
do pratikraman, you are actually watching a ‘documentary’ of
your past. As such, you are exposing everything of the past
during pratikraman. During that time, there are no interruptions
from your mind, intellect, chit or ego. The entire internal
mechanism of the mind, intellect, chit and ego (antahkaran) is
silent. During that time, only pragnya (direct energy of the Self)
is working. The pure Self is not doing anything.
Once a mistake occurs, it gets hidden. Then another layer
will come on top of that; then another layer and so forth; this
way the mistakes build up in layers. These layers continue to
grow and at the time of death, in the final hour, a summary of
all these mistakes takes place.
When mistakes of the past are ‘seen’ in the present, it is
due to the Light of awakened awareness (Gnan prakash). It
has nothing to do with memory (smruti).
Questioner: Does pratikraman have any effect on the
Soul (the Self)?
Dadashri: No effect whatsoever can touch the Self. There
is no effect on the Self. There is absolutely no doubt that the Self
exists. It reigns beyond the boundaries of memory and that is
why You are able to go beyond the memory. The Self is infinite
energy. This energy is called pragnya shakti and it can break
through all the layers from the core of the earth. By doing
pratikraman, You become filled with a sense of freedom and
that freedom is freedom from all attachment and abhorrence. All
animosity is naturally broken. And it does not matter if the other
person is not there for your pratikraman. Your pratikraman
does not require his signature. When you committed the mistakes,
no witness was present. You commit most of the mistakes against