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Aptavani-9
Purity through pratikraman
Questioner: But sometimes a knot of suspicion is formed
in the prakruti itself, how can that be untangled?
Dadashri: What Dada is saying is not to have any
suspicions, if however it arises, you have to say, ‘Go to Dada!’
Even when such circumstances arise, the circumstance and You
are separate.
Questioner: Suspicions about someone will arise even
when I don’t want it to, so how can that suspicion be
eliminated?
Dadashri: In that situation, you have to recall the other
person’s pure Self, and ask for His forgiveness and do
pratikraman. This suspicion arises because of the mistake you
made in your past life.
Questioner: Whatever consequences we have to suffer
because of our past karmas, is the suffering reduced by
repeated pratikraman?
Dadashri: Yes. And ‘You’ do not have to suffer it. ‘You’
tell ‘Chandulal’, ‘Do pratikraman’, and it will be reduced. The
more pratikraman you do, the more it is reduced, until it is
completely gone.
Everyone comes together as a consequence of their past
karmas. Neither a Gnani nor an agnani can change anything, so
why should you incur double the loss?
Questioner: Dada, you are right, you said that the world
has been this way from the very beginning.
Dadashri: There is nothing else to it. It appears the way
it does because it has been covered up, but really suspicion kills
people. Therefore, do not allow suspicion to arise and do
pratikraman. Do pratikraman for any suspicion that arises
towards someone.