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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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Seeker: So is there no discharge (nirjara) of karma in
this?
Seeker: One needs to look to see if the time is over or not.
Dadashri: You do not have to keep looking at that. When you look and see that the sand has fallen through, you will know that the samayik is over. Samayik is to increase the strength of the mind (manobud) and it increases your faith in the Self.
Seeker: One will bind merit karma (punya) with it, right?
Dadashri: Yes, the punya increases. If you are able to keep the mind confined within the circle, you will increase your merit karma for sure.
Dadashri: There is nirjara (discharge of karma) but very little. There cannot be significant nirjara. Everyone can do samayik by reading a book. Reading books feels good. Instead of reading fiction novels, one reads the scriptures. Even the scriptures can be interesting. You can get a lot of joy from it. But one will not gain anything from it. You will only gain if you do the real samayik of the Self. Anything You 'do' as the Self (Atma), after becoming the Self, will bring You salvation. But you have to become the Self first one must have Self-realization). When You feel that you have become the Self, then you will be able to say so. If you become the Self for only a minute, it is more than enough.
So with this worldly samayik, it is acceptable for one to sit in it reading scriptures, but that is all considered samayik of the mind. Samayik of the mind means the Self has nothing to do with it. That samayik will still the mind, it strengthens the mind. The other benefit is that while he reads the scriptures, he will not have any other thoughts. Samayik through One's Own Understanding
Seeker: What is the benefit of doing samayik every day?
Dadashri: Yes, but you are talking about doing a samayik through your own understanding, are you not? It is not the samayik the Lord had prescribed, is it? It is a samayik of your own understanding.
Seeker: We are doing it just the way the Lord had
Seeker: But the mind does not remain confined within the circle. It wanders everywhere.
Dadashri: Then that samayik is not considered complete. For however long the mind remains in the circle, that much of it is samayik. That is worldly (vyavahar) samayik and the real samayik is one which takes place everywhere you go.
Such a Samayik is Useless Seeker: I do samayik, pratikraman and all other rituals but I cannot maintain my attention in what I do.
Dadashri: Then what good is that? What good is it if your dhyan (natural meditation and attention) is not in it? It is only good if there is dhyan in it. Where does your attention (dhyan) lie?
Seeker: It goes into the worldly life (sansar).
Dadashri: But what do you like about the sansar? When it (the chit) leaves from here, it will go and sit somewhere else, will it not? So where does your mind (mun) sit? (502)
Seeker: It goes into whatever work I may be involved with at that time. If there is any work at home that I am doing, it will go there.
prescribed.
Dadashri: Is that where one keeps looking at the hourglass to see whether all the sand has fallen through or not?
