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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Pratikraman
That Which Does Not Allow Kashay to occur
When you go to buy vegetables in the morning, seeing Shuddhatma (pure Soul) in everyone, is anyone likely to get upset with you? Is that so? Will the donkey complain, "Why are you looking at the Shuddhatma in me? Will it say that? Therefore, that is equanimity (samata) and not vishamta (imbalance; uneven). It becomes a problem when you try to balance using 'frogs' as weights! You will not find equanimity there. (520)
It is like this: say you have a five-pound weight on a scale and you want to increase it to ten pounds, then you have to put five pounds weight on the scale. So having used the five pounds, you have to add another five pounds; then you will be able to weigh ten pounds. What does one do to add another five pounds of weight if one does not have anything to increase the weight with? So what did one man do? He put frogs on the scale! But by the time he went to add two more frogs, the other three would jump off. So as he tried to catch them and put them back on, the others would jump off. So he would never be able to keep the scale steady. That is what occurs with these people's samayik.
So their scales would keep tipping back and forth. In this manner, one can never do a samayik using 'frog weights.' If we were to compare it with 'frog weights,' people would start quarrelling. 'Hey, you! You are calling our samayik 'frog weights'?' Very well, we will not call it that. We will just say that the scales keep tipping back and forth. But otherwise, it is like the 'frog weights,' is it not? By the time you get two of them on, three would jump off. Can you have a stable scale?
Questioner: No.
one has known that real samayik means to not allow vishambhaav (kashay) to occur. To begin with, one does not have Gnan (knowledge of the Self) and then not to allow vishambhaav to occur - my goodness that is a great wonder! Mind you, that is not the meaning of samayik that prevails currently, but that is the true definition of samayik.
A man cannot bear it when his son is cursing his wife. But if he is sitting in the samayik, he is certain that he does not want to do any vishamta - raag-dwesh. If he were to do such a samayik, then his work is verily done. Our mahatmas have such equanimity (samata) of the samayik. There is no question about it. In Samayik, the Married One Becomes a Monk
Questioner: In doing samayik, even a seeker - listener (shravak) becomes like a monk (sadhu).
Dadashri: What is the definition of a monk (shraman)? It is one who has greater equanimity (samata). Those who have attained equanimity are called shraman. So such a seeker becomes like a sadhu, does he not?
Questioner: My understanding of a shravak is someone who leads a worldly life, someone who is a householder (grahasthi).
Dadashri: Yes, but a married person (grahasthi) cannot have equanimity (be shraman). But when he does samayik for an hour, he becomes like a shraman for that day. If the real meaning of samayik did not come out as it just did, then saying that one becomes like a shraman (monk), would cause problems.
This is because concentration (ekagrata) is done even by the bavas (bavas - those who renounce their worldly life and live through begging; the ascetics) and all others including married people who practice different yogas.
Dadashri: So the exact meaning of samayik has been revealed today. That which was in the hearts of the Tirthankars, is not what is being practiced today. For two thousand years, no