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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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Pratikraman
Dadashri: So then you should do that work. Do the work where your dhyan goes. What will you gain by doing things where it does not remain? All your efforts will be wasted and you will not gain anything. Living a Good Worldly Life is Itself a Samayik
Seeker: I have made a firm decision that I want to do certain kriyas (rituals) every day, so what will occur about that?
Dadashri: It will go to waste. All your efforts will be in vain. Spend less effort but make the effort meaningful. And live well in the worldly life (sansar).
Do samayik in it; there is samayik in the worldly life. Raising your children without scolding them, not getting angry with them; that in itself is a samayik. What is the point of doing this samayik? Do samayik with your children, with your husband, with your mother-in-law, with your sister-in-law. Do all those samayiks. It is worth doing if your mind is in it. What good is a samayik in which your mind is not engaged?
Seeker: But these are daily rituals and routines, so I keep doing them.
Dadashri: Yes, but what is the point in doing it if your mind is not in it? Your chit should be in it, should it not?
Seeker: The chit does not remain in it. Dadashri: Then what will you do? Seeker: That is what we have come to ask from you.
Dadashri: Yes. So this is not dear to you. You do not like this. You like your children and other things. The chit will always go to things you like. Remove the value of your children, devalue them and increase the value of this (samayik), then you will benefit from it, how can it be otherwise?
If you want to do samayik, then do the samayik of
repentance. Repentance for what? Repent for taking money from others wrongfully; repent for any sexual desire that is not right.
Seeker: So should I not consider the samayik of the Navkar Mantra as samayik?
Dadashri: Alas, it is because you have considered it as a samayik that you find yourself in this predicament. You have not recited the Navkar Mantra correctly even once. Don't you have to take into consideration the person that is prescribing these rituals?
These Are All Gross Samayiks Wherever there is artadhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self and others), there is no Jain religion.
Seeker: Is doing samayik not the Jain religion?
Dadashri: What do you consider as samayik? Do you call samayik a samayik or asamayik (that which is not samayik) a samayik?
Seeker: Please explain what samayik and asamayik are?
Dadashri: What kind of samayik do these people do? The monks and religious teachers do gross (sthool) samayik. Gross samayik means to bring a restless mind into concentration on a target.
Some people take a book and read for hours. Some do deep thinking, some are doing mantras, whatever it may be in, but they remain in that samayik. But even then they do not remain still. How can even God give them any credit for all that? One does not remain still for even forty-eight minutes. What can anyone do?
Even the laborers have such gross (sthool) samayik. All the businessmen, whose minds have become restless, are not
