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Let Go of the Reins Then the Practice of 'Doership’ Will Go Away!
Here, in Akram, we do not have worldly samayik, dhyan, or any other rituals. All that, you find on the outside. Worldly samayik or dhyan means that you decide on an external boundary for yourself and then you do not allow anything to enter into it. You continue to push out anything that tries to come into it. But things will come in even if you try to keep them out. Whereas in our samayik, You simply have to “see” what enters, and what happens within. You just have to go on ‘seeing all the thoughts that come along, whether they are good thoughts or bad thoughts. When you watch a movie and you see the actors fighting and creating havoc, you do not get emotional, do you? Just as it is in a cinema, so it is a 'cinema' within you. This samayik is like watching a movie within you. It is indeed beneficial, especially if you do it for forty-eight minutes.
Just try this experiment, of letting go of the reins, just one day of the week. On Sunday, let go of your reins early in the morning and say, “Dada, I am handing this rope over to you.” Hand over to Dada the reins of all the five "horses” (the senses), and then just see how they all run. I will not let this "chariot” fall into a ditch or do anything else. You do not know how to handle the reins which is why you let go of them on a downward slope and keep pulling hard while going uphill and so the poor “horses” get exhausted and bleed from their mouths. That is why Lord Krishna told Arjun to sit and let him guide the chariot. Arjun's chariot began to run straight when
