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How do I dissolve bad karma?

Topic: Spiritual GuidesPublished October 27, 2021

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Since a man died under your car, a feeling of guilt will naturally come. rnHowever, feeling guilty will neither help dissolve the bad karma of yours nor will it allow you to live in peace. Negative karma can be effectively reduced with the true Knowledge, precisely in the same way as a disease can be treated with its perfect antidote! So today, let’s gain some understanding of this true knowledge…rnPRATIKRAMAN –– a powerful spiritual weapon to erase one’s bad karmas! Pratikraman means asking for forgiveness from God, with repentance in your heart, for having hurt or harmed someone through your thoughts, words or actions. Pratikraman means to retrace our footsteps from the bad sins committed by us knowingly or unknowingly. Whenever we feel guilty, it needs to be done wholeheartedly in the presence of God residing within that person, then this repentance washes away our misdeed. When you ask for forgiveness, from the Soul (the God) within the person who you hurt, it brings beautiful results without even having to say a word to the other person. Thereafter, we do Pratyakhyan, meaning we resolve to never repeat that mistake. It is a firm inner intent to never do it again. Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan explains that when you make a firm resolve, one layer of that bad karma gets shed. rnNow, if that misdeed happens again, it means it’s another layer of that mistake, and hence we should repeat the process of Pratikraman and Pratyakhyan. This will fracture our karmic bondages, one after another, and thus, our liability of that bad karma gets reduced considerably. rnTaking a vow of never hurting any living being to the slightest, on a daily basis, further helps combating our bad karmas. A FIRM RESOLVE DAILY –rnParam Pujya Dada Bhagwan has pressed on the importance of daily morning prayers by repeating the following five times, "I do not wish to hurt a single living being through my mind, my speech or my body." This reduces our responsibility for hurting any living being intentionally or unintentionally. The truth is that we only have control over our inner intents and not the outer circumstances that unfold. So hurt may happen, but we must continue to pray daily, ardently. The science behind Pratyakhyan is that whatever inner intents we pose today, they will bring results inevitably in our next life. This implies, anyone dying under our car today is due to our weak intent in the past life. Today, if we make a firm intent to hurt nobody, in future, such an accident will not happen on our account. NATURE’S LAW –rnWhatever outer circumstances we experience in our present life, is mainly due to our past life inner intents (the karmic causes), yielding it’s visible results (the karmic effects) in this life. This is Nature's law! Due to one of our negative intentions made in our past life, Nature’s natural forces called ‘Scientific circumstantial evidence’ came together to give its karmic result in the form of a person dying under our car. But now, by doing Pratikraman, that negative intent gets reversed to a positive one, thereby causing our next life results to be completely non violent. BREAKING THE KARMIC TRAP –rnAkram Science, as expounded by Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, has also provided a permanent scientific solution of the very bondage of karma, good or bad, and thus provides the basis to liberation! In other words, a permanent solution of freedom from this vicious cycle of binding new karmas and the inevitable wanderings is found by Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan. This solution comes through a scientific process called Self-realization, wherein the Enlightened One makes us realize our true identity as a Pure Soul, which was dormant ever. Through his grace, the awakened state of the Self persists even amongst all worldly interactions. rnThus, new karmas stop binding only after Self realization, which is the Gateway to permanent freedom! To know more:https://www.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/spiritual-science/pratikraman-asking-for-forgiveness/what-is-pratikraman/

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