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Pratikraman
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Freedom from the Chains of Life-After-Life
Accounts
How to Be Free From Past and Future Life
Accounts?
Questioner: What should we do to be free from the
relations of previous lives (past life accounts; roonanubandha)
that are now in front of us?
Dadashri: If you are forced to live with someone you do
not like, then on the outside you should continue your worldly
relationship with that person – and from within you should do
pratikraman in his name. The suffering for you in this life is the
effect of your atikraman in your past life. What were the causes
behind your suffering today? In your previous life you did
atikraman against that person and, as a result, in this life you
have to suffer the consequences. If you do pratikraman now in
the presence of whichever God you worship, you will erase your
mistakes. Repeated pratikramans will wipe off the many mistakes
that have been caused in these sticky (cheekani) relationships.
(162)
If a man dislikes his wife, he will see many mistakes in her
and will harp on her negative points. This constant faultfinding
leads to scorn (tiraskar). The scorn leads to fear. He will
experience fear in certain interactions with her and when he sees
her, he feels a sense of suffocation and uneasiness. We all tend
to be afraid of those or that which we dislike intensely. All this
is a result of scorn. In order to break free from this feeling of