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[25] Understanding the Principles of Pratikraman
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you feeling hurt?
Questioner: Yes, how should I do pratikraman for that?
Dadashri: You do not have to do pratikraman for that.
He has to do it.
Questioner: With what inner intent (bhaav) can he be
improved?
Dadashri: He has to improve himself. You do not have
to improve him. You have to forgive him.
Questioner: So, on my part, I have to grant forgiveness,
do I not?
Dadashri: Whatever occurs, you have to say it in worldly
language, otherwise it is not the forgiveness of a vir purush –
an enlightened One in whom there is spontaneous forgiveness.
Questioner: It is mandatory for me to forgive?
Dadashri: No, it is only vyavasthit. In doing that, what
did you do for the other person? What new thing did you do in
that?
‘Ours’ is a spontaneous and natural forgiveness (a sahaj
kshama). When the other person makes a mistake, he regrets
it from within. I tell him, ‘Don’t feel bad, it is fine.’ Therefore,
there is always natural and spontaneous forgiveness from ‘us’
without fail.
Forgiveness should be natural and spontaneous (sahaj).
Questioner: When I make a mistake in Dadashri’s
presence, within a second I experience the feeling of tremendous
grace from Dada.
Dadashri: Yes, that is sahaj kshama.
The other forgiveness (kshama), which is not spontaneous