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Pratikraman
Dadashri: Pratikraman means to repent. What does
one have to repent for?
Seeker: I am not really able to repent. I just keep doing
the rituals.
Dadashri: Pratikraman is to retrace one’s steps.
Pratikraman means to repent for the anger and wrong actions
you have done.
Seeker: We cram all the sutras (concise statement that
usually requires a commentary for understanding) that are written
in it.
Dadashri: What is the point of cramming it? Even a radio
memorizes, does it not? This radio keeps talking the whole day
long, every day.
Crude and Hollow Pratikramans
Seeker: All these activities….
Dadashri: Now why are you attacking someone else?
You do not attack the real culprit but you attack some third
person. You attack whoever is a handy target. Why do you not
catch the main culprit?
Seeker: The main culprit is not anyone on the outside, is
it? One, himself, is the main culprit, is he not?
Dadashri: This is not pratikraman for sure. This
pratikraman is in a crude form, and then to wait for a year and
to claim, ‘We have done all our pratikraman,’ is even cruder.
What is considered real pratikraman? If one were to do
pratikraman for twelve months, then all his mistakes will be
reduced. Whereas all these people have been doing pratikraman
all their lives; these ascetics (sadhus), these monks (sanyasis)
who are sixty, seventy, eighty years old and not a single mistake
of theirs has diminished. On the contrary, they have increased!