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the mechanical atma - mechanical soul. It can never be the real Self. That mechanical self is what they try to make still. Hey, you! It is mechanical; it can never be made still!
Seeker: I did not understand that.
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Dadashri: This "vyavahar atma' (the relative self; the non-Self complex) is a mechanical self. It is not to be stilled. You (the Self) are to simply study whether the mind can remain still or not. That is all You have to see.' This samayik is done to still the mind so that this body will remain still for a while. The mind will remain still for awhile. This is meant to hold the mind steady for a little while. Just as when a tired person sits down to rest, that does not mean he is going to remain seated forever, does he?
Seeker: No. Dadashri: That is how this is.
if he is really not a collector, and had just written the order, and stamped it as if signed by the collector? That order would not be valid, would it? It would not have any legal backing. Similarly, all these collectors' - worldly spiritual teachers that prescribe samayiks, are not true Purush.
Useless Samayik I was sitting at a table drinking tea and a seventy-five year old businessman (sheth) was doing samayik, when some glasses fell in the adjacent room and broke. I am hard of hearing so I did not hear them break, but the businessman had good hearing and heard them. So then he calls out, 'What broke?' I said to him, 'Your atma broke! What else was going to break?' Otherwise, if a woman were to fall, would she make such a noise? Nothing else will break, only the glasses broke! It was just the noise of the breaking glass. So while doing the samayik, the man is asking, 'What broke? How can you consider that a samayik? When one does not leave the samayik even if his wife is dying, that is called a samayik. How can you call this a samayik? Why should you cry over broken glasses and cups? Is it still like this everywhere?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: Is that so? So then would the cups and glasses come alive again because you left the samayik?
Gross Karma and Subtle Karma
When Acharya Maharaj (religious head or teacher) does pratikraman, samayik, gives a discourse or a lecture; that is his vocation and external conduct; that is his gross (sthool) karma, but his inner state is important. What is being charged within him is what is going to be of benefit to him in his next life. His conduct of today is a discharge. The entire external conduct is in the form of discharge. And yet people claim, 'I did a samayik. I did auspicious (dhyan) meditation. I donated money.' For
This samayik is like sitting down when you are tired.
Here in Akram Vignan, this machinery runs day and night and the Self remains constantly in the samayik. It is not outside of samayik even for a moment. It constantly remains in samayik even while moving about in the worldly life, or when at home with wife and children.
And the Self is verily samayik. Elsewhere, the samayik they do is vyavahar samayik. The vyavahar samayik is to be done for the purpose of attaining the real samayik.
This worldly samayik should be given - prescribed by a true Purush (the Gnani Purush)
Seeker: What is the definition of true Purush?
Dadashri: True Purush means, for example, say the collector of the Thana district has written an order for you that this much land has been given to you. Now what would occur
