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Pratikraman
Dadashri: If you do not know anything else, ask for
forgiveness: ‘Dear Dada, with you as my witness, I do not
understand this one way or another.’ There is no need for a
technique here. What is your intent?
Clever people will then take the goal and make it
‘ornamental’-elaborate. And when they do that, people get scared
that they do not understand anything and they cannot do it. Hey,
you! The heck with it! Just ask for forgiveness. Say, ‘Dear
Lord, I do not understand it but I have made a mistake and,
with you as my witness, I ask for forgiveness.’ Should there be
anything ‘ornamental’ here?
Atikraman at Every Step
You may earn a ‘dime’ or ‘two’ in a year with the kind
of pratikraman (Kramic) you are doing. Whereas when you
do the real pratikraman, you will earn a ‘dollar’ for every hour
of every day for three hundred, sixty-five days of the year!
Do you understand what real pratikraman is? We do
kraman (normal actions) in the worldly life. Kraman means,
‘Dear Mom, give me some food to eat.’ The mother will give
you food to eat. There is no problem there. But when you say,
‘Mom, you made this curry very salty!’ then that is considered
atikraman. And whenever you do atikraman, you have to do
pratikraman for it. There is no need to do pratikraman if you
do not do any atikraman. Do people do atikraman?
Questioner: Atikraman occurs automatically.
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Dadashri: The Lord has told us to do pratikraman
whenever we do atikraman. There is no problem if you do not
do atikraman. There is no need for pratikraman if you give
me salty curry and I eat it.
Questioner: Atikraman occurs at every step.
Dadashri: Then as long as atikraman occurs, you will