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Pratikraman
and neutral activities), and their atikraman is only about two-
five percent. And for that he will have to suffer the consequences.
Otherwise, they would never do atikraman.
Whereas here (in the Akram path), we have attained Gnan
out of the blue and, therefore, will have to do pratikraman for
whatever kind of stock we have filled, whenever it comes out.
In the Kramic path, there is no need to do pratikraman
after Self-realization. But because ours is the Akram path, we
still have a large stock of baggage of karma and, despite this, we
became the pure Soul (Shuddhatma), so doing pratikraman
will wash away the stock! But ‘we – the Self’ do not have to
do pratikraman. ‘We’ have become the pure Self and so ‘we’
have to tell ‘Chandubhai’, ‘Dear man, you had spoilt this and so
now improve it.’
This pratikraman stops all enmity between people. If you
have any problems with this man, if he were to say something
unpleasant, then you would feel very hurt and consequently you
will think badly of him. You will have a negative meditation about
him, so you should do pratikraman directly to his Shuddhatma
and become free from that mistake. You have to do pratyakhyan
that you will not do it again and so that mistake will be washed
away.
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The Self is Never the Doer of Pratikraman
It is not acceptable if I don’t tell you to do pratikraman.
What you are saying is completely true, that pratikraman
is considered poisonous. If one were to do pratikraman after
attaining the Self and the natural meditation as the Self
(shukladhyan), then it can never be a shukladhyan. But this
pratikraman is not to be done by the Self. Who do you ask to
do pratikraman?
Questioner: I make ‘Chandubhai’ do pratikraman, but