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descending upon earth; hence He gave people the mighty
weapons of alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan.
What is pratikraman?
All natural and spontaneous actions that take place in the
worldly life are kraman. As long as they occur naturally and
spontaneously, it is kraman but when an action becomes
excessive and hurtful, it is atikraman. For all the atikraman that
occur, one will have to do pratikraman without fail if he wants
to be free. It will become clean only if he washes it off.
If in the past life, one had created an intent ‘I want to slap
that man’, in this life when that intent materializes, he will end up
slapping someone. That is atikraman, and for that he has to do
pratikraman. Recall the pure Soul within that person and ask for
forgiveness. The Lord has said, “You will attain moksha if you
do pratikraman for all your atikraman.”
Any negative conduct is atikraman. A negative conduct is
a stain (karmic stain) that will ‘bite’ you in your mind; in order
to get rid of it, you have to do pratikraman. If you commit
atikraman towards someone, you have to do pratikraman whole
day, in his name. Only then will you be free. If both you and the
other person do pratikraman towards each other, then you
become free sooner. The pratikraman comes to end sooner if
you both do five thousand pratikramans each. If the other
person does no pratikraman, you will have to do ten thousand
pratikramans if you really want to be free. At least you will
become free; however, because there is only one-sided
pratikraman, the other person will continue to feel the hurt
himself. Through your pratikraman, the other person will change
his feeling (bhaav) towards you. Not only will you improve your
own bhaav, but it will also positively influence the other person’s
bhaav. There is so much power in pratikraman that even tigers
turn into dogs (they become tame)! When is pratikraman useful?
It is only useful in the wake of negative results or effects. If a