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[2] Every Religion Supports Pratikraman
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pratikraman and pratyakhyan in his daily life, it would still be
beneficial for him even though he does not understand it. Self-
realization will eventually come in front of him.
The one whose alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan
are sincere will attain the Self for sure.
Seeker: Give me some solution, a vow or some form of
repentance whereby, if I commit a demerit karma, I can attain
purity and become free from it.
Dadashri: ‘We’ - the Gnani Purush and the fully
enlightened One within - give you all that here. ‘We’ give you
all the cures; all kinds of medicine. ‘We’ give you alochana,
pratikraman pratyakhyan; ‘we’ give you everything.
Pratikraman Means to Turn Back from
Demerit Karma
Dadashri: What is the meaning of pratikraman? Do you
know?
Seeker: No.
Dadashri: Tell me the way you understand it.
Seeker: It is to turn back from demerit karma (paap).
Dadashri: To turn back from demerit karma! What
wonderful justice the Lord has given, that to turn back from
demerit karma is called pratikraman. But the demerit karmas
still continue. Why is that?
Seeker: You are the only one to explain that. One is
alochana, the second is pratikraman and the third is
pratyakhyan; I do not understand these three words completely.
Dadashri: Pratyakhyan means ‘I am letting go of that
thing today, I am giving it up.’ That is the intent behind it. If you
want to give up something, then you have to do pratyakhyan.