Pratikramana Full Version

SR No.: 007553
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation
Publication Year: 2010
Total Pages: 333
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Akram Vigyan, & Paryushan
File Size: 40 KB

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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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'Why did you do atikraman? So do pratikraman now.' If you do atikraman, you should do pratikraman for it.
Samayik means the awareness of, 'I am Shuddhatma.' Samayik prevails continuously in the five Agnas. To settle with equanimity is the first samayik. To remain in a state of naturalness as the Self constantly, is a samayik like 'ours' (the Gnani Purush and the Lord within). To a lesser degree, this state can prevail for You too.
When You 'do' samayik, at that time the prakruti (the non-Self complex) is considered completely natural (sahaj). After a series of samayiks, You will learn to catch onto the present (vartman kaal). You cannot attain this directly. When you sit in a samayik for an hour, you are only in the present.
Samayik of the Kramic Path and That of the Akram Path
The samayik that people do in this world is different from the samayik that we do here. This samayik that we do is incredibly magnificent and supreme. Such a samayik cannot be found anywhere, can it?
Elsewhere, when people sit to do samayik, they create a little boundary and then, if they get a thought, they will push it out of this boundary. If they think about their shop, they will push that thought away, and then they will push out another thought. So they just keep pushing away their thoughts and when they pass one gunthanu (48 minutes) doing this, they call it a samayik.
And our samayik is of a completely different nature. What is this samayik for? It is for dissolving the tubers of anger-pridedeceit-greed (kashays) in the non-Self complex, the external. It can be done only after one has become the Self.
We say, 'I know the habits and the nature of the habits
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of the mind, speech and body and I also know the nature of 'my' own Self.' Therefore, You have to dissolve the nature of the mind, speech and body. When someone asks me how it can be dissolved, I tell him, 'By 'seeing' what the nature of the mind, body and speech is. By 'seeing' how intense and dense it is.' Can you not know the density of it?
Questioner: Yes, I can.
Dadashri: So You have to take the nature (swabhav) of that habit and make it the focus of Your samayik. In doing so, that much of 'the nature' will be dissolved. Then you take another 'nature' of another habit. So the samayik is for the purpose of dissolving these tubers of kashays. Our path is Akram and is without any specific steps. So in order to dissolve the nature of different habits, you have to 'do' the samayik. If it was not for these kashays, this Gnan is such that one will be verily in samayik the whole day long.
Absence of kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is called samayik. That is true samayik. But how are people to be free from kashays? (498)
For us here, there is samayik the whole day long, but why do we have to do this particular samayik? It is to get rid of all the karmic baggage from the past life that still remains within. There is a lot of baggage within. There are so many 'spices' within; you have even brought them from many other markets. Hey, you! Why don't you just buy from the Indian market? But he will say, 'No this looks like potatoes!' In this way, so many different kinds of things have been filled within. It is shameful even to discuss this!
Worldly Samayik
In the vyavahar samayik, worldly samayik, one tries to still the mind just like a cow that will be kept confined within a certain area. If the mind wanders outside its limit, one will keep