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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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Dadashri: It is our energy (shakti), known as pragnya,
that is alerting and calling for the need to do pratikraman.
Questioner: When we do our own pratikraman, then is
it the pudgal doing pratikraman of the Shuddhatma?
Dadashri: He is doing it to the Shuddhatma. Therefore,
the Self (shuddha chetan) and pragnya shakti (energy of the
Self), are working in pratikraman.
Questioner: Atikraman can occur towards one’s own
self and not just towards others, right?
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Dadashri: You have to do pratikraman with your
Shuddhatma for your own self. You have to say, ‘Dear
‘Chandubhai’, do pratikraman; why do you make such
mistakes?’
The Mistake and the Knower of the Mistake
are Separate
Questioner: When ‘I’ ‘know’ (janavoo) the mistake,
then how can it be considered a mistake?
Dadashri: You are the Knower. Then it is not the mistake
of the Knower. But You know what ‘Chandubhai’ is doing.
There is no problem with kraman (neutral activities). But when
he is scolding someone, You tell ‘Chandubhai’ that it is his
mistake. This is the path of Akram and in this path, if the
discharging stock is ‘seen’ (by the non-Self) as good (shubha),
then there is no problem.
Questioner: If one is the Knower (gnayak), then what
is wrong with even the bad (ashubha)?
Dadashri: But one does not have such awareness
(jagruti), does one? That is why ‘we’ tell you to do
pratikraman.
This ‘packing’ (the body complex, the relative-self) should