________________ Support virtuous acts and denounce sinful acts. Stop at one end and bloom at the other end. This is the only road to religion. Create a longing for salvation (samveg) and at the same time, have abhorrence for worldly objects (nirved). What is Samayik? Samayik helps to detach from this world and move towards liberation. What is Samayik? Move away from violence, towards non-violence! Move away from vices, towards virtues! While in Samayik, we move away from vices, but we fail to get closer towards virtues. Hence, in spite of performing Samayik, wild jungles, instead of gardens, continue to grow. It is clearly not progress if wild trees continue to grow over and over again. Creating a beautiful garden is progression. Destruction (visarjan) is always easy, creation (sarjan) is very difficult. A sarjan after visarjan is eternal. May Parmatma bless us with these sublime feelings and may we all advance closer towards Parmatma. -- 51 -