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Pratikraman
101
Questioner: You say that atikraman is neutral (does not
charge karma for mahatmas) so why is there a need to do
pratikraman?
Dadashri: Atikraman is neutral, but when one becomes
engrossed in it, he plants the seed (a cause for a new karma).
If you do not become engrossed during atikraman then you do
not create any causes. Atikraman in itself does not do anything.
And with pratikraman, even when you do not become engrossed
in it, it will give results. You are the knower of when Chandubhai
becomes engrossed and also when he does not. You (the Self)
never become engrossed. It is the mind, the intellect, the chit,
and the ego that become engrossed and ‘You’ are the Knower
and Seer of these.
Questioner: If Chandubhai becomes engrossed, then we
have to tell Chandubhai to do pratikraman, right?
Dadashri: Yes, Chandubhai has to do pratikraman.
Questioner: Is it possible to do pratikraman in dreams?
Dadashri: Yes, you can do pratikraman very well. The
pratikraman you do in your dreams are better than the ones you
do now. Right now you do them quickly, but whatever work
gets done during the state of dreaming is very methodical. It is
also very good when you see Dada in your dreams. You can
see Dada better in your dreams than you can in your wakeful
state. This is because dreams are a natural and spontaneous
state and here this state of wakefulness is unnatural.
In the kramic path, when one becomes Self-Realized,
there is no pratikraman for him. After acquiring the Self,
pratikraman is considered poison. For us, the Self does not
have to do pratikraman, we make Chandulal do the pratikraman.
Because this is Akram Vignan, there is still a lot of baggage left
inside.