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Pratikraman
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Gnan Rescues Those Drowning in the River
of Worldly Life after Life
That Which Comes in Memory Calls for
Pratikraman
Questioner: Is it possible to ‘see’ past faults by trying to
remember them?
Dadashri: Past faults can only be ‘seen’ by applied,
focused awareness of the Self (upayog) and not by recalling
them through the memory. You have to work hard to try and
recall, do you not? They need recalling when a veil comes over
them. If you had some problems with ‘Chandulal’ and you did
his pratikraman, ‘Chandulal’s’ presence will be there. You need
to apply this awareness. In this path of Akram there is nothing
to remember or recall. Recollection of events is dependent upon
memory. Whatever events spontaneously arise in the mind come
in order to become cleansed by pratikraman. They come so
that they may be cleansed.
(382)
This memory itself tells you, ‘Get rid of me; wash everything
off.’ If it did not come into the memory, there would be all kinds
of problems. What would you ‘wash’ off if it did not come?
How would You know where the attachment-abhorrence (raag-
dwesh) lies? The memory comes on its own to be settled. It
comes so that the ‘stickiness’ can be removed. So