Awareness at the Time of Death

Only until one is alive!

Questioner: Dada how will all the karma bound in this

life, prior to receiving this Gnan, be destroyed?

Dadashri: While you are still alive, you should destroy

them through repentance and pratikraman. Not all of them will be

destroyed, but they will definitely become weaker. Then in the

next life, because they are already weak, they will just crumble

away.

Questioner: Does the bondage of karmas weaken through

repentance?

Dadashri: Yes, they become weak. Only certain kinds of

bondage are weakened at their roots through repentance. There

is tremendous strength in our pratikraman. Do it with Dada

Bhagwan as your witness and it will bring tremendous results.

After this Gnan New Account for Mahavideh Kshetra

Due to the forces of karma, there may still be one or two

more births left for you. Let them be. But after that you will definitely

go to Simandhar Swami, the current and present Tirthankar living

in Mahavideh Kshetra. From now on all accounts you have

brought with you, no matter how strong and hard, will eventually

come to an end. There is no other way for them!

Questioner: Do the forces of karma diminish through

pratikraman?

Dadashri: Yes they do! And they will be concluded fast.

Pratikraman Leads to Final Freedom

The more mistakes you destroy through pratikraman, the

closer you come to liberation.

Questioner: Will these ‘sticky files’ (close relatives, like

a husband or a wife) stick to us again in the next life?

Dadashri: Why do we have to worry about the next birth?

Do enough pratikraman here only. Any free moment you have,

keep on doing pratikraman. You have to tell ‘Chandubhai’ (your

relative self) to do pratikraman for everyone in the family and for

any hurt that he has caused in his previous lives. He has to ask for

forgiveness for all the faults related to his attachment and

abhorrence, sex, anger, pride, and greed, done in this life and

numerous other lives. Everyday take one member of the family

and do pratikraman to them. Then do pratikraman towards all

the people around you. Do the same for the neighbors, with the

same awareness. Keep doing this and the burden of your load

will become lighter. It will not become lighter without your doing

so.

First I cleared the bonds of the whole world in this way,

and then I became liberated. As long as in your mind, I am at

fault, it does not allow me to be at peace. So whenever I do

pratikraman in this way, everything gets erased.

Pratikraman of the Dead

Questioner: How can you ask for forgiveness from those

who have died?

Dadashri: Even though they are dead, you can still do so

because you have their photographs and you can remember their

faces. Even if you do not remember their face, but you know

their name, you can still use their name and do pratikraman, and it

will reach them.

Questioner: So how do you do pratikraman for the ones

who have died?

Dadashri: First recall their pure Soul, which is completely

separate from the mind, body, speech and all karmas, of the dead

person. Then recall and confess your mistakes (alochana). Ask

for forgiveness (pratikraman) for that mistake and resolve not to

repeat that mistake ever again (pratyakhyan).

‘You’, the pure Soul should remain the Knower and the

Seer of ‘Chandubhai’ (the relative self) and know how many

pratikraman he does, how sincerely he does them and how many

times he does them.

Jai Sat Chit Anand