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Pratikraman
mistakes will not come again.
The Mind is Not Involved In Samayik
Questioner: When I am ‘seeing’ my ‘film’ and the mind
gets involved in it, it likes it, gets stuck in places, yet in all that
there is no feeling (bhaav) of ‘I have done something bad or
wrong’; how does that appear?
Dadashri: The mind is not present at all during samayik.
There is no existence of the mind at that time. You were only to
‘see’. You are not to see whether anything was good or bad.
Questioner: After ‘seeing,’ do I not have to say that I
am asking for forgiveness?
Dadashri: Pratikraman is a different thing. But you
cannot say things like, ‘It was like this and like that, that it got
stuck’; there is nothing there to get stuck. It is not the activity
of the mind; it is the ‘activity’ of the Self. You (the Self) can
‘see’ all that because it is the activity of the Self; and that is why
the mind has nothing to do with it.
You Can See the Conduct of the Atma
Questioner: If I do pratikraman once, will they (mistakes)
come back again?
Dadashri: If it is with very thick and heavy veils (of
karma effect), then it will keep coming back. If it is long in
duration, that karma will stay with you right until the end. And
that is why You have to ‘see’ it again, and keep ‘seeing’ i