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## Explanation of the Transgressions of Samayik Vrat
**Yoga Shastra, Third Light, Verse 115:**
**Meaning:** Evil intentions, disrespect, and forgetfulness of the body, speech, and mind are the five transgressions of Samayik Vrat. ||115||
**Explanation:**
* **Kayadushpranidhan (Transgression of the Body):** Engaging in sinful activities with the body. Not keeping the limbs of the body, such as hands and feet, still, and moving them repeatedly up and down.
* **Vagdushpranidhan (Transgression of Speech):** Speaking words that are meaningless, doubtful, or ambiguous, or words that incite sin.
* **Manodushpranidhan (Transgression of Mind):** Having thoughts of anger, greed, hatred, jealousy, pride, etc., distracting the mind from virtuous activities, and creating confusion in the mind due to attachment to worldly affairs.
These three types of transgressions occur through the combined actions of the mind, speech, and body.
It is said, "Even though sitting, standing, etc., on the ground without seeing or cleaning it does not constitute violence, but due to carelessness and negligence, the Samayik Vrat is not considered pure." (Shravak Pragyapti 313-15)
One who performs Samayik should first reflect with their intellect and then speak blameless words. Otherwise, the Samayik Vrat will be corrupted.
Those Shravak-Shravika who perform Samayik while worrying about their household affairs, their minds are immersed in worldly thoughts, and their Samayik Vrat is futile and meaningless.
**Disrespect:** Performing Samayik without enthusiasm or reverence.
One who does not perform Samayik at the regular time, even when it is convenient, and only does it when forced or when time permits, or who completes the Samayik time with great negligence, is considered to have committed the transgression of disrespect.
It is said, "Completing Samayik immediately after reciting it, or not doing it at the regular time, performing it at will whenever one desires, such instability, disorganization, and disrespect do not make the Samayik pure." (Shravak Pragyapti 317) This is the fourth transgression.
**Forgetfulness:** Forgetting the time to perform Samayik, or forgetting whether one has performed it or not, or whether it is still to be done. Forgetting such a noble religious practice due to strong negligence, etc., is considered the transgression of forgetfulness.
It is said, "One who forgets when to perform Samayik, or whether they have performed it or not, even if they have performed it, their Samayik should be considered futile." (Shravak Pragyapti 316) This is the fifth transgression.
**Doubt:**
There is a doubt that "Samayik is rendered meaningless by Kayadushpranidhan, etc." It was previously said that this is actually the absence of Samayik, and transgression is merely a form of Vrat-malinta (impurity of the vow). If there is no Samayik, how can there be a transgression of it? Therefore, it should be said that this is not a transgression of Samayik, but rather a breaking of Samayik!
**Resolution:**
Breaking occurs intentionally, but transgression occurs due to ignorance or non-use.
**Further Question:**
Samayik is the renunciation of sinful actions in two and three ways. In this, Kayadushpranidhan, etc., break the aforementioned rule. This leads to the absence of Samayik, and one should perform atonement for the sin caused by its breaking. It is impossible to stabilize a restless mind in Manodushpranidhan, so it is better not to perform Samayik than to perform it. It is said, "It is better not to do it than to do it improperly."
**Answer:**
Your statement is not true, because Samayik is taken from the "two and three ways." It is performed in six categories (types) by not doing and not causing sinful actions with the mind, speech, and body. Even if one of these renunciations is broken, the rest remain intact. This means that Samayik is not completely broken, and the transgression can be purified by giving "Miccha Mi Dukkadam."
When the mind's results are corrupted, the practitioner's intention is not the same, and giving "Miccha Mi Dukkadam" purifies it. In this way, there is no complete absence of Samayik.
**Sarva-Virati Samayik**
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