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[2] Every Religion Supports Pratikraman
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Repenting is Never Insincere
Dadashri: How many such pratikramans do you do?
Seeker: If I hurt anyone, I repent immediately.
Dadashri: Repenting is the suffering you experience. It is
not considered pratikraman. Still, it is a good thing.
Seeker: If I repent after a bad deed, how can I be freed
from that? Then a person will just keep on doing it, won’t he?
Dadashri: I will show you a way for all that.
Seeker: On the one hand, you commit aggression and on
the other, you repent. It is a never-ending thing.
Dadashri: It is not like that. If a person does bad karma
(deed) and he repents, his repentance can never be insincere.
When he repents, that repentance is sincere and with that, a
layer of karma is removed. An onion still appears whole even
though one layer is gone. Another layer will be removed the next
time. Repentance never goes to waste. Every religion calls for
repentance. Even Christianity tells one to repent.
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The Correct and Complete Path
Seeker: So can our demerit karma (paap) be removed
through repentance?
Dadashri: Demerit karma is removed only with that. There
is no other way.
Seeker: So one keeps asking for forgiveness and then he
keeps repeating the bad deed (paap)?
Dadashri: You are free to keep asking for forgiveness.
You have to keep on asking for forgiveness. Yes! This is the
path of one hundred percent attainment! Without asking for
forgiveness, there is no freedom from this world. All mistakes
are erased with pratikraman.