Pratikraman: Freedom Through Apology & Repentance (Abr.) (In English) Pratikraman: Freedom Through Apology & Repentence | Page 66

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the outside you portray an image of graciousness? Your
welcoming them nicely is an effect. Through your bhaav, however,
you are sowing new seeds, which will give its effect in the next
life. With your negative bhaav, you are creating a new account.
Then faced with such a situation, you must ask God for
forgiveness and admit your mistakes. Do not worry about
changing anything, as long as you do pratikraman and erase
your mistakes, you will be doing the right thing for your next life.
These strange times will indeed pressure you to act in an
ambiguous and contradictory manner. Even those who seem to
have control over their senses fail in this respect. If you erase
it with pratikraman, you will reap its benefits in the next life.
Questioner: Within an hour I do at least twenty-five
atikramans.
Dadashri: Then do collective pratikraman for them.
Questioner: How do I go about doing that? What should
I say?
Dadashri: Confess that you have committed so many
atikramans and that you are doing pratikraman for them all
collectively. Specify your topic. For example address your faults
related to harsh speech, or anger etc., and for each topic say
that you are doing pratikraman collectively. Everything will be
resolved this way. If you cannot complete your pratikraman,
you will be able to do so later. Just do not procrastinate or else
you will forgo all of them entirely. You do not need to complicate
the matter.
14. Release From Bondage Of Inner Enemies
Questioner: If someone makes us very angry and we
lash out, and then we continue to feel internal turmoil, should we
do pratikramans more than once?