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remain, then I will wash them off for you. But do not sit around
because of that. Everything will remain stagnant within if you sit
idle. There is no need to get entangled in all this.
One man tells me, ‘I have to do up to two thousand
pratikramans a day. I get tired of it. What should I do?’ So
‘we’ told him to do collective pratikraman. How can a man do
two thousand pratikramans at a time? How can one say and
do it two thousand times over? Now whatever mistakes You
‘see’, they go away and then others come. Whatever mistakes
You ‘see’, they fall off, whereas someone else would say, ‘I see
the same mistake again and again.’ So ‘we’ tell him that the
same mistake cannot come back. An onion has many layers. As
you remove one layer, another layer comes forth. Similarly, these
mistakes have layers. When one layer is removed, it is replaced
by the next one. So it is not the same layer; the previous layer
is gone. If there were thirty layers, twenty-nine will remain. Then
when you remove another layer from that, twenty-eight layers
will remain.
This is a receptacle of infinite mistakes. You may ‘see’ up
to three thousand mistakes a day. That man got tired so ‘we’
lowered the level for him. One cannot do so much. He could
‘see’ many mistakes because his awareness has increased a lot.
Now he would find it very difficult to do that many pratikramans
as he is a working man, would he not? Therefore, ‘we’ dimmed
his awareness and told him to do collective (jathu) pratikraman.
Jathu means to do pratikraman of everything together. However,
what should our pratikraman be like? It should be ‘shoot-on-
sight’ pratikraman. It should be ‘cash.’
Pratikraman is done the moment the mistake occurs.
There are some who go as far as to tell me, ‘Dada, I cannot
bear it. I cannot do pratikraman at all. I have to do so many
pratikramans that in doing them one by one, there is no end to
them. I can see that many mistakes.’ So ‘we’ tell them to do