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He practices with single-mindedness and equanimity. When the material essentials are matched with the emotional essentials, the material essentials become a radiant essential. This is why the scholars have given great importance to the emotional essentials. Emotional essentials are transcendental practice and the fruit of that practice is liberation.
**Samayik Essentials**
Samayik holds the first place in the six essentials. It is the essence of Jain conduct. Samayik is essential for both monks and lay people. All lay people, when they accept the path of practice, first adopt the Samayik conduct. There are five types of conduct. Samayik conduct is the first among them. Samayik conduct has been present throughout the reign of all twenty-four Tirthankaras, but the other four conducts are not present. For monks, Samayik is the first conduct, while for lay practitioners, Samayik is the first of the four vows. The grand edifice of Jain ethical philosophy is based on the solid foundation of Samayik. The practice of equanimity is not the heritage of any particular individual or group. It is for all practitioners, and whoever practices equanimity is a Jain. Acharya Haribhadra has clearly stated that whether the practitioner is a Svetambara, a Digambara, a Buddhist, or of any other faith, whoever is in equanimity will undoubtedly attain liberation. One person gives away one hundred thousand gold coins every day, another person practices equanimity yoga. Who is greater among these two? In resolving this curiosity, the wise men of truth have said - whoever practices equanimity yoga - Samayik, is great. The karma that a person who practices penance continuously for millions of years cannot destroy, the practitioner of equanimity destroys in a few moments. No practitioner has been liberated without equanimity, nor will he be. Those who have been liberated in the past, those who are being liberated in the present, and those who are to be liberated in the future, the basis of their liberation was Samayik. It is. It will remain.
Samayik is a pure practice. In Samayik, the practitioner's mind remains completely calm like the ocean of milk, therefore he does not bind new karma. Due to being situated in his own nature, he destroys the remaining karma. Therefore, Acharya Haribhadra has written that through the pure practice of Samayik, the being destroys the destructive karma and attains omniscience.
- Haribhadra
1. Whether a Svetambara or a Digambara, a Buddha or another.
Whoever is in equanimity will attain liberation, no doubt.
2. One gives away a piece of gold every day.
Another, however, practices Samayik, he does not fall short.
3. What does not get destroyed even by millions of years of penance.
The mind of equanimity destroys that karma in a moment.
4. Samayik - pure soul, completely destroys destructive karma.
From its destruction, one attains omniscience, the illuminator of the world and the beyond.
- Haribhadra Ashtak-Prakarana, 30-1
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