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[1] The True Nature of Pratikraman
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karma have nothing to do with each other. If you do good
deeds, you are doing dharma, nothing else. When you do bad
deeds, you are doing adharma. If you do good deeds, people
will say that you are a good person.
Doing good deeds is called dharma and doing bad deeds
is called adharma and to transcend dharma and adharma
(good deeds and bad deeds) is called Atma-dharma – the
religion of the Self. If you do good deeds, you get credit and so
you have to come back to enjoy that credit. When you do bad
deeds, you create a debit and for that you have to suffer the
debit in the next life. Where there is neither credit nor debit, the
Self is attained. Where there is not even a dollar’s worth of
credit or a debit, there the Self is attained.
Purity Through Repentance
Seeker: Having come into the worldly life, karma is
inevitable. What should we do if we knowingly or unknowingly
create wrong karma?
Dadashri: If that occurs, there is a remedy for it. Once
a wrong karma – anything that hurts others through thoughts,
speech or action – occurs, repentance should follow immediately.
Repentance should be done wholeheartedly and with sincerity.
Even after repentance, should it occur again there is no need to
worry; just repent again. You are not aware of the science behind
all this, so you may feel that despite your repentance, the wrong
karma does not stop. Why it does not stop is also a science in
itself. You should simply carry on repenting. If you repent for the
wrong karma wholeheartedly, all of it will be washed away. If
you hurt someone, then you should absolutely repent.
Seeker: When we carry out our normal daily activities of
the body, do we have to repent for it?
Dadashri: Yes of course! Until you become Self-realized,
if you fail to repent, you will continue to bind more karma.