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[2] Every Religion Supports Pratikraman
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you within an hour!
Demerit karma cannot be cut with a knife. It cannot be
cut into slices. It has to be destroyed to ashes (destroyed by
Gnan in the Gnan Vidhi).
Questioner: Even the Catholic Priests say, ‘Come to us
and confess and all your sins will be destroyed.’
Dadashri: Is it easy to make a confession? Are you able
to make a confession? Confessions are done in the dark. The
person who confesses does not show his face. He will only go
to confession at night.
Whereas here, with me, forty thousand men and women
have confessed everything to me. Many young ladies have made
confessions to me. They confess everything. They gave me their
confessions in writing. When the confessions are done openly,
will the paap not be destroyed?!! It is not so easy to confess.
Questioner: So this pratikraman and confession, they
are both the same thing, are they not?
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Dadashri: No, they cannot be the same. Pratikraman is
to keep washing off after an atikraman (aggression
through thoughts, speech or action) occurs, and when new ‘stains’
occur, one has to keep washing them off. And confession of
one’s sins or wrong action is a different thing.
Questioner: What is the difference between pratikraman
and repentance (prashchyataap)?
Dadashri: Prashchyataap is repentance and is general
in its application and for a number of faults but not specific to
any particular fault. Christians do a general confession of their
faults every Sunday. Pratikraman, on the other hand, is specific
to a fault. The one who commits the atikraman does
pratikraman. Pratikraman is done instantly; it is done the
moment atikraman takes place. ‘Shoot-on-sight’ pratikraman