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Pratikraman
Gnanis tell you everything, having ‘seen’ it all, whereas others
have to bring it into their conviction (pratiti). All this is nothing
but pudgal.
Questioner: Everything that occurs with and to the pudgal
is being dictated by vyavasthit, but how does it do atikraman?
Dadashri: It can do kraman and it can also do
atikraman.
Questioner: It can only occur when the energy of the
Self (chetana) enters into the body (pudgal), is that not so?
Dadashri: That verily is called pudgal. These pudgal
parmanus (the smallest part of matter), ‘we’ call it ‘pudgal,’
that is all. The Lord has called that pudgal as ‘mishrachetan.’
What is pudgal parmanu? Mishrachetan is that which is charged
with ‘the life energy of the Self (chetan bhaav)’ and is called
‘puran’ (to fill) and which will empty (galan) in the next life.
Then it charges again. It gets charged (puran; filling or coming
together) and discharges (galan; emptying or dissipating).
Atikraman is considered galan (discharge of past karma).
But if atikraman occurs after Gnan, and if it has occurred
through the self (mishrachetan), then it is considered puran.
(This does not occur after Gnan because the Self is not the doer;
the mishrachetan is the doer).
Questioner: If ‘Chandubhai’ does it, he does not have
any attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), so for him there is no
such thing as atikraman or pratikraman!
Dadashri: Raag-dwesh all belongs only to ‘Chandubhai’
(the one with the wrong belief).
Who is Asking for Forgiveness and from Whom?
Our pratikraman is one that follows atikraman; it is not
for kraman (that which is occurring without kashay). When you