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Pratikraman
What kind of fools are you people?! The Lord had
predicted this right from the beginning. He knew everything; he
knew how people were going to turn out.
The Renunciation Necessary for Liberation
And in the Kramic path, people do pratyakhyan but
they do not do pratikraman. They take pacchkhan from the
Lord, but they do not understand pratikraman at all. They do
not even understand pratyakhyan. They take pacchkhan of not
eating potatoes and things like that. They take pacchkhan of not
eating green vegetables. Those pacchkhan are not for going to
moksha. Pacchkhan for moksha are different. Pacchkhan is
to say you will never repeat the mistake for which you do
pratikraman. We do pratikraman for going to moksha. You
will not find such a pratikraman anywhere else. Pratikraman
that liberates has never arisen before. True pratikraman does
not exist in the Kramic path. There is not a single person at the
moment that is doing real pratikraman.
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People do collective pratikraman, one pratikraman for
all mistakes. The maharaj recites the text written in the Maagdhi
language and others just continue listening. So they tell you to
rub the ‘soap,’ but where do I rub the soap? On my garment
or on the table? Those pratikramans all go to waste.
When the maharaj makes them do pratikraman, he
keeps rubbing the soap on the table and people keep rubbing
it on the floor and the tile. No one has done pratikraman.
They have taken pacchkhan, but what kind of pacchkhan?
Their pacchkhan are, ‘I will not eat green vegetables. I will
not eat potatoes. I will not eat root vegetables. I will not eat
at night.’ Vow of not eating at night is pacchkhan to them.
This pacchkhan and the path to moksha have nothing to do
with each other. Pacchkhan is for the worldly path. In doing
that, his next life will improve and he will have many worldly
comforts.