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Whatever you need forgiveness for, you must ask for the
strength from Dada. Ask for the strength, but do not use any
of your own, lest you run out of it. If you ask for the strength
and use it, you will never run out of it. Moreover, you will have
some left over. How much stock can you have in your own
shop?
You should ask Dada for strength in everything. If you fail
to do pratikraman, you must ask for the strength to do proper
pratikraman. Ask for all the strength. I have as much strength
as you need.
6. The Thorns Vanish, But the Blossom Remains
Prakruti (the complex of thoughts, speech and acts) has
arisen out of doer ship and normal action and through atikraman
it has proliferated. This proliferation decreases with pratikraman
and as a result a person will become aware.
If you go to meet a person you think is a Gnani, but in
actuality is a phony, it would be your karma effect. Karma
effect is responsible for taking you there. And if after meeting
him, you have negative thoughts about him, then you will sow
new seeds of bad karma. The effect of this causal karma will
be experienced in your next life. You will have to suffer the
consequences of this negative cause in your next life. Thoughts
may occur, but you must do pratikraman for having them, and
that will erase the new cause.
Remember to do pratikraman in the name of whichever
God you believe in. When you do your pratikraman, your bhaav
should be that regardless of what the other person is like, your
thoughts or behavior should not be negative. There is no
accountability on your part in saying that someone is good,
when he is good, but there is a tremendous accountability in
saying someone is bad when he or she is not. There is also a