Sometimes due to lack of understanding or pressure of circumstances; every human being becomes trapped in such situations that even when he does not want to make mistakes in worldly interactions; mistakes happen, and is not able to become free from them. Hence to destroy their mistakes and to find the right way to live life, the Tirthankara Lords and Gnanis have given the unfailing weapon to the world in the form of alochana (confessing the mistake to the Lord within), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (making the firm resolve to never repeat the mistake). The incidences of the gross, subtle, subtler, subtlest mistakes of absolutely revered Dadashri before attaining Gnan and after attaining Gnan, and how he had done pratikraman after recognizing them have been compiled here. In order to understand the significance of the pratikraman He had done let’s study in depth three consecutive Dadavanis on the topic of pratikraman, so that we get the right vision to do so.
