Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts (Full Version) Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts | Page 118

[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
59
What if the Guidance is Crooked?
Seeker: Dada, we are doing this pratikraman.
Dadashri: Do you know how to do pratikraman? That
is all fine. This is like placing a jewel in the palm of a child.
Pratikraman can only be done, truly, after one understands it
having attained Self-realization. In order to do pratikraman,
you have to have the one who makes one do pratikraman (the
Self) and the doer (non-Self) of pratikraman. You need it all
together. Who is the one making you do pratikraman?
Seeker: The maharaj makes us do pratikraman. I do
not understand what pratikraman is, but in it he says this male
doll and female doll are married, they did this and that; all that
is demerit karma and for that they make us do ‘michhami
dukkadam’ pratikraman.
Dadashri: No, there is no demerit karma taking place in
what the maharaj is telling you. They have free time on their
hands and because they have not become enlightened (samkit),
their minds have become ruined and they have ruined the minds
of others.
Now even to speak this way is wrong because Krupadudev
Shrimad Rajchandra (Gnani of the Kramic path) has said that
if a person is doing that and you tell him he is wrong, then he
will stop doing even that much pratikraman. Therefore, do not
say anything.
That is why pratikraman has been ruined – because it
has come to this level. Even as it is, it is acceptable. One cannot
get rid of it altogether. You have to make do with whatever there
is. Things will improve out of this. The time is improving it.
There is No Need for Ornaments There
Seeker: Is there a particular technique of doing
pratikraman?