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Pratikraman
Dadashri: That ‘sorry’ is not pratikraman, but it is a
good thing. It is good because, in that way the other person will
not have an ‘attacking’ intent in his mind. It will stop the attacking
intent. So it is very good that he has learned to say ‘sorry’ to
others. But there is nothing comparable to pratikraman.
Questioner: If the Self is the non-doer, then whether one
does atikraman or pratikraman, what does it matter to ‘me’?
Do I not have to just keep ‘seeing’ all that?
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Dadashri: You (the Self) continue to ‘see’ who does the
atikraman and tell him, ‘Why did you do atikraman? Now do
pratikraman for it. I would not have asked you to do
pratikraman had you not done atikraman.’ That is what You
say to him.
Questioner: Do we do pratikraman so that the next life
will be easy?
Dadashri: It is to cleanse everything. You are removing
the stain immediately after it occurs, otherwise you will have to
come back to wash it off. Wash off the stain. A stain occurs
when you do atikraman. Whatever the ‘color’ of the stain,
wash it off and then you can relax. If ‘Chandubhai’ is being
obstinate at that time, then wash the whole thing off at night. If
five or seven or ten atikramans have occurred, then do collective
pratikraman and cleanse them.
Questioner: Is doing pratikraman part of the fourth Agna
(Dadashri’s five directives prescribed after Self-realization) of
‘settling with equanimity’?
Dadashri: Settling with equanimity and pratikraman have
nothing to with each other. Settling of files is a different thing.
Pratikraman in the Akram Path
Questioner: One person had so much aversion to
pratikraman that he told me that when you do pratikraman,