Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts (Full Version) Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts | Page 462

[24] Gnan Rescues Those Drowning in the River of ...
403
a firm decision that it will not occur again. This will erase it and
remove it from the memory. You have to do pratikraman one
time for that which comes once in the memory, but as a whole,
you have to do pratikraman as many times as it comes in the
memory.
Have you not already made the decision that you do not
want any worldly things when you say your prayers, ‘I do not
want any temporary thing of this life except for the experience
of the absolute Self’? Despite saying this, why does it come in
your memory? For that, you should do pratikraman. Understand
that despite doing pratikraman, if anyone or anything comes in
the memory, it means that there is a pending complaint and that
calls for more pratikraman.
Questioner: Dada, the pratikraman continues as long as
it continues to come in the memory. I do not need to recall it.
Dadashri: Yes, you do not have to recall it. Once you
have decided to do pratikraman, it will occur on its own.
That Which Arises As Desire Calls for
Pratyakhyan
Remembering, or memory, is based on attachment and
abhorrence. If they did not come to mind, you would forget the
mistakes you have made. Why do you not remember people
you met in passing, but you remember the loved ones who are
now dead? It is because you still have some pending attachment
and abhorrence. Doing pratikraman will dissolve this.
Desires (ichchha) come because pratyakhyan has not
been done, and events and people come into the memory
(smruti) because pratikramans have not been done.
Questioner: Is pratikraman associated with intent or
desire of ownership (maliki bhaav)?
Dadashri: For desire or intent of ownership, pratyakhyan