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Pratikraman
a way you understand. You understand that you did wrong and
you have to decide not to do it again. You should vow not to
do that again. If it still occurs again, if you repeat the mistake
again, then you should repent again. As soon as you become
aware of the mistake, you should repent and that much of your
mistake will be destroyed. In the end everything will gradually
come to an end.
How can you consider it a dharma (religion; rightful
action) when it cannot destroy karma which creates further
bondage? When can new karma stop? They can stop with
pratikraman.
Asking for Energies to Rise Higher
Questioner: How and from whom should we ask for
energies to rise higher within?
Dadashri: You can ask for the energies from your own
Shuddhatma (pure Soul) or from the Gnani Purush. And those
who are not Self-realized should ask for energies from their guru
or from whatever God they believe in. You should make a list
of all wrong you see within and ask for the energy to overcome
them. Through faith, or with Gnan (enlightened knowledge), decide
what is definitely wrong and then do pratikraman for it; ask for
the shakti (energy) from the Gnani Purush that it should not be
so. Then the mistakes will go away.
Large tubers of mistakes can be dissolved with samayik
(to Be the Self and to ‘see’ the self) while other minor mistakes
can be removed with prayer (pratikraman). Mistakes that have
arisen in absence of prayer or pratikraman can be removed
through prayer. All this atikraman has arisen due to ignorance
of the Self. Paudgalik shakti (energies of the physical matter,
energies of the non-Self) can be overcome through prayer
(pratikraman). It is easy to slip down and difficult to climb up
because paudgalik shakti is involved in slipping.