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Pratikraman
devshi pratikraman, you have been wandering around in vain
for infinite lives.
In the old days, people did ‘shoot-on-sight’ pratikraman.
People cannot do that nowadays, so they recall all the mistakes
of the whole day and do their pratikraman at night. That is
called devshi pratikraman. And recalling all the mistakes of the
night and doing pratikraman for them in the morning is called
rayshi pratikraman.
Pratikraman Can Never Be Ritual
If a person of the current time cycle wants to know dharma
(religion), what ‘we’ teach him is that there is no problem if he
happens to say something wrong, there is no problem even if he
said something wrong in his mind, but he has to do pratikraman
for it and vow that he will not do it again. ‘We’ teach people
to do pratikraman.
Seeker: So then the pratikraman we do morning and
night; are they wrong?
Dadashri: You are doing pratikraman of a corpse; you
are not doing it for the living. If you do pratikraman like a
corpse, then you will bind merit karma.
Seeker: Does that mean that whenever we do something
wrong, we should do pratikraman?
Dadashri: Pratikraman should always be done ‘shoot-
on-sight’. It should never be left pending.
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Seeker: A living being (jiva) is constantly binding karma,
so should he be constantly doing pratikraman?
Dadashri: Of course, he has to.
Many mahatmas should be doing up to 500
pratikramans daily. How many would this Niruben be doing?
For the past eight years, she does 500 to a thousand