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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
''Prapatti'' is the idea that "I am at His disposal and that He does His work, I am just a tool in His hands". The word is derived as follows: "Pra+ – "pat" + "ktin" = "Prapatti". A practitioner of "Prapatti" does not see difference between "sorrow" and "joy' and accepts both with equanimity,
''Prapatti'' is the idea that "I am at His disposal and that He does His work, I am just a tool in His hands". The word is derived as follows: "Pra+ – "pat" + "ktin" = "Prapatti". A practitioner of "Prapatti" does not see difference between "sorrow" and "joy' and accepts both with equanimity, He considers himself as a tool in the hands of Parama Purusa and feels—
<blockquote>. . .everything is being done by His wish, that it is by His grace that He is using me as a tool, that He may or may not use me as a tool, but ‘His will be done</blockquote>


The opposite feeling of ''Prapatti'' is "viprapatti". Here a person feels it is "I" who does everything – and no one else.
The opposite feeling of ''Prapatti'' is "viprapatti". Here a person feels it is "I" who does everything – and no one else.
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