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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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make a ‘phone call’ to the pure Soul of the other person, it
reaches Him immediately, and his pure Soul also passes your
‘phone message’ on to his pudgal non-Self complex.
Pratikraman has to be done with living beings, not with the
jada (inanimate, non-living).
Questioner: ‘You are the Self (Shuddhatma)’, so the
Self does not have to do pratikraman. When one does
atikraman, it is not directed towards the pure Soul
(Shuddhatma); it is directed towards the other person’s pudgal.
So when I ask for forgiveness in pratikraman, do I have to ask
for it from the other person’s Shuddhatma or his pudgal? (460)
Dadashri: The forgiveness has to be asked from the
Shuddhatma. But who is asking for forgiveness? The pudgal.
And you have to ask for forgiveness from the Shuddhatma of
the other person: ‘Dear Shuddhatma Bhagwan, with you as a
witness, I am asking for forgiveness.’
Pratikraman Even of the Pudgal
Questioner: The pratikraman we do – is it of the pudgal
or of something else?
Dadashri: It is only of the pudgal, the non-Self complex,
who else?
Questioner: It is of the pudgal! So can similar
pratikraman be done for my own pudgal too?
Dadashri: It has to be done for verily your own pudgal.
You do pratikraman of the other person if you have hurt the
other person’s pudgal. Otherwise, you have to do pratikraman
of your own pudgal, do you not?
Questioner: Who does the pratikraman of our pudgal?
Dadashri: All that is done by ‘our’ pragnya shakti (the
energy that takes the awakened one in Akram Vignan to final