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and atikraman?
Dadashri : There is a big difference between the two.
There is not as much liability in atikraman as there is in
aakraman. Aakraman carries tremendous liability. A simple
negative thought is atikraman but an inner intent of, ‘I will set him
straight. Whatever may happen to me but I will take care of him’
is aakraman bhaav (hostile or attacking nature). Aakraman
bhaav does not remain after Self-realization, however atikraman
still remains. Anything excess of normal is atikraman. One
comes into the realms of vitaragata (non-attachment) when his
aakramak bhaav goes away. There is a big difference between
aakramak bhaav and atikraman bhaav. After Self-realization,
you may have dislike for someone, you may even feel there is
a storm brewing within you, but there is no aakramak bhaav in
it. These feelings of dislike will not create aakraman bhaav, but
they will cause you to do atikraman, for which you will have to
do pratikraman and pratyakhyan. If you keep having such
feelings of dislike a thousand times over, you will be doing
atikraman a thousand times over, so you can only wash off your
misdeeds by doing alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan a
thousand times over; only then will you become free from such
heavy atikraman. After Self-realization, there should not be
even a trace of dislike within us. Now we do not want to
create new quarrels and we only have to settle the old ones
that remain.
Collective pratikraman
Questioner : What is jathu pratikraman?
Dadashri : Jathu pratikraman is doing pratikraman for
what you keep remembering in general. If you constantly think
about someone, you have to do jathu pratikraman. Jathu means
collective. Memory is a mirror of raag-dwesh for which you
have to do pratikraman some day, but in jathu, you have to do
pratikraman every time you think of that person.