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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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me the samayik. You live in my kingdom. I will give you whatever you ask for it. Give me the fruit of your forty-eight minute samayik; give it to me. Just say to me, 'I give it to you; I surrender it to you.' That is all!' So Puniyaa Shravak replies, 'Sir, I cannot give you that. It is not something that I can give to you.' So the King asks, 'Why not? You will have to give it to me. I do not want to hear the word 'no." Shravak says, 'I cannot give it to you until the Lord says so.'
The King tells him, "The Lord has told me to get the samayik from you, so name your price.' So then Shravak gives in and agrees to give it to him, since the Lord had said so. The King thought it would be a promise that would exchange hands and so he asked Puniyaa Shravak for his asking price. Since he was the King, naturally he would not do anything that would bring an obligation on him. So the King asks Puniyaa Shravak again, 'Tell me your price,' to which Puniyaa Shravak replies, 'I will charge you whatever the Lord says to."
The King thought, since Puniyaa Shravak has agreed to give it to me, Lord will not have any problems. So he comes to the Lord and says, 'I had a good fortune today. The Lord asked him, 'What was that good fortune?' And the king replied, 'Shravak has agreed to give me the samayik. He has happily agreed to do so. So now I will not have to go to hell, will I? The Lord asked, "How did he give it to you?' The King thought the Lord would make him pay Shravak five or ten hundred thousand rupees; what else would he do? All that for forty-eight minutes!
He thought, now I will not have to go to hell. The Lord replied, "Then you will not have to. But who told you this? How did he give you the samayik? The King replied, 'He has left it up to You, my Lord. You just tell me the price and I will pay him.' The Lord questioned, 'He left it up to me? Of course, I would know its worth, wouldn't I? And I cannot say anything wrong, can I?' So then the King said, 'Tell me the price so that
I can pay him right now.'
So the Lord replied, 'Let me explain to you. Do you realize the value of that samayik? Your entire kingdom will go into paying only the commission for it. The commission alone, which is three percent of your entire kingdom! The rest will still remain to be paid. How are you going to pay that?' So the King says, 'My entire kingdom will go into commission? So then where will I get the rest? So that means that my life in hell cannot be avoided, can it?
The Lord said, “This samayik is worth so much that you can never pay for it.' So the King agreed and accepted that he could not afford it and so he stopped trying, and went to hell. He will come back as the first Tirthankar by the name of Lord Padmanabha in the next chovisi (a time cycle of twenty-four Tirthankars). That is the kind of samayik 'we' have you do every day, but people do not realize or appreciate its value. They "chew' paan (betel nut in leaves) and then they spit it out. They have no appreciation for its value.
(514) Questioner: If you give a diamond to a primitive man, will he not see it as a piece of glass?
Dadashri: Yes, that is the way it is. It is like giving a diamond to a child; that is what has occurred. Still, someday it will start working. The child will grow up. Once or twice someone will take it away from him, but then he will come to 'Dada' and get it again and then he will never give it up. He will not be deceived again when he has been punished once. He will not give it up again, will he?
And at that time, there is great bliss (anand). When such a samayik is done, like the one of Puniyaa Shravak, there will be great bliss. It does not matter if, at that time, the body is emitting vibrations, it may continue emitting vibrations. The bliss that one feels during the samayik is because there are no vibrations of kashays.
