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be necessary. With this belief comes attachment and abhorrence
and with pratikraman you are liberated. Dada shows you how
to do alochana, pratikraman, and pratyakhyan to liberate you.
No one possesses the power to bother anyone or the
power to endure. Each person is merely a puppet going about
his business on the world’s stage. With pratikraman, these
puppets learn to live in peace and harmony. No matter how
insane the other person may be, he will come to his senses
through your pratikraman.
If you do pratikraman all day long for several days, for
a person you do not get along with, you will be able to get
along with him and he will seek your company. All strife and
bitterness is because of your atikraman faults.
Questioner: Sometimes I feel unappreciated and
disheartened. I feel that no matter how much I do for that
person, he keeps insulting me.
Dadashri: You must do his pratikraman. This is the way
of the world. There are so many different kinds of people who
will hold you back from your liberation.
Questioner: What should that pratikraman be for?
Dadashri: Pratikraman should be done because of your
past life cause which has come into effect now. And it should
be done because you are now becoming instrumental in his
binding a new karma.
The world will not allow anyone to be liberated. The
bondage of this life is such that only pratikraman can release
you. For this reason, Lord Mahavir has given us alochana,
pratikraman, and pratyakhyan in just one sentence. There is no
way out. When is one able to do pratikraman correctly? It is
when he attains the knowledge of the Real Self from a Gnani