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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman 517 This is a Scientific Discovery Questioner: If I have done something wrong and I know about it, and do pratikraman for it, then how does pratikraman make me free? Do I become free from the liability of that mistake? Dadashri: The mistake that occurs is an effect of past karma. It is a result. So what was the cause (bhaav) behind it? Those causes were bad, and that is why you do pratikraman for the causes and not for the result-effect. The result in this life can be anything. So this is how You get rid of all the mistakes. Questioner: So pratikraman is for the causes? Dadashri: Yes, pratikraman destroys the causes, not the results (effect). Did you understand that? We hurt someone, then we do pratikraman. Hurting him is an effect. It is a result. The intention (bhaav, irado) to hurt him was the cause (in the past life). So by doing pratikraman, that intention is destroyed – and that is why pratikraman destroys the causes. Otherwise, whatever occurs is a result and, by doing pratikraman, it is cleared. This is a ‘scientific discovery!’ Questioner: How does pratikraman that cleanses our mistakes and brings us in our pure form work? Does that pratikraman reach the other person’s Shuddhatma and wipe everything clean? What is it? Dadashri: It is like this; if you press the button, the light will come on and if you press the button again, the light will go off. Similarly, if you have made

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