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Pratikraman
pratikraman. Some people say that they did two hundred
pratikramans. How do they do them?
Dadashri: It is like this: as one goes deeper, he is able
to ‘see’ more mistakes.
Questioner: I can only ‘see’ my own mistakes.
Dadashri: That is because You have now been given the
Gnan; otherwise, you could not ‘see’ your mistakes before,
could you? You can ‘see’ them now, can’t you? You can ‘see’
them now and so you have to ask for forgiveness for the ones
You ‘see’. You begin to ‘see’ the mistakes as you do
pratikraman. Some can ‘see’ twenty-five mistakes daily, some
can ‘see’ fifty mistakes and some can ‘see’ a hundred mistakes.
It is possible for one to ‘see’ up to five hundred mistakes a day;
such is the vision that can open up. The darshan (vision as the
Self) will continue to open up.
If he is talking to you, he may use harsh words. But at the
same time he can ‘see’ his mistake that he did something wrong.
And can you see mistakes, or not?
Questioner: Yes, I can see my mistakes.
Dadashri: Then You are blessed, are you not?
What kind of pratikraman do our mahatmas do? They
do instant, ‘shoot-on-sight’ pratikraman. Then the mistake does
not arise, does it?
Questioner: Do I have to recite the full long special
ceremony (vidhi) of pratikraman or can I shorten it and do it
with positive inner intent?
Dadashri: Do it in short with the inner intent (bhaav).
We write ‘dravyakarma (effect karma), bhaavkarma (cause
karma) and nokarma (neutral karma; gross discharging karma)’
and all that in the pratikraman vidhi, however, you can shorten
it and that is acceptable.