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Pratikraman
then things can be resolved faster. However, if the other person
does not do pratikraman, you will have to do ten thousand in
order to be free.
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Questioner: It bothers me if something like this remains
pending.
Dadashri: Do not carry around such a burden. Instead,
sit down for an hour one day and do collective pratikraman for
all your mistakes towards anyone you did atikraman with. Do
not go around carrying the burden of an unfinished task.
Questioner: When I sit down to do samayik in the
morning, half an hour to three quarters of an hour goes into
doing pratikraman.
Dadashri: You should not have such burden at that time.
Whenever you do pratikraman, whether it is after fifteen days,
a month or a year, then do them all together.
Atikraman of Atikramans
In order to take care of one atikraman, a person does
greater atikraman and even greater atikraman to take care of
that atikraman.
Questioner: So the entanglements keep increasing.
Dadashri: The entanglement increases in such a way
that there will never be a resolution. Day and night it torments
the owner. That is why human beings cannot become free from
their entanglements. And that is why they go into a four-legged
life – for the very purpose of becoming free from the
entanglements.
Questioner: Meaning, first the atikraman stops. Then
while it is halted, one goes into animal life and suffers the effects
of the mistakes of karma.
Dadashri: No. To suffer means to repay. Through suffering