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your eyes when you do. Only a Gnani Purush can do samayik with the eyes open. Others do not have the capacity to do so. You Have To Continue To See' In The
Samayik Questioner: It is fine, I remain the Knower-Seer during a samayik, but what is the state of the mind, the intellect, the chit and the ego during that time? What should I pay specific attention to during the samayik?
Nothing Can Compare to the Samayik that
Exists Continuously Questioner: It is said that one should do all kinds of samayiks. What are the different forms of samayik? (522)
Dadashri: Yes, by various forms, it means that the one we do for forty-eight minutes is considered samayik, but when you go out on a street and happen to get into a clash with someone, take that incident into a samayik. You should come back into equanimity. Wherever you find yourself in such situations, You should come into the balanced state (equanimity). And that is our path; the path of equanimity. Our whole path is that of samayik. This path of ours is the ultimate path of alochana, pratikraman, pratyakhyan and samayik.
Is there anything else you want to know?
Questioner: Why should we come into samayik for just forty-eight minutes? Do we not only have to remain in equanimity, all twenty-four hours?
Dadashri: There is nothing better than that, is there? That is completely unique. You know, you cannot put a value on the pratikraman that we do here. People forget the world for two to three hours, and they continue to see their own mistakes!
Whatever mistakes You 'see' will go away. That is considered live pratikraman. The other is non-living (nirjiv) pratikraman, but one binds merit karma with that. It will not go unrewarded.
How Critical is Padmaasan in Samayik?
One man asked me if he should sit in a crossed-leg sitting posture (padmaasan) when he does samayik. I told him, 'In this time cycle, do not do padmaasan, otherwise you will have to go for therapy for your knees. But do sit still during samayik and if you cannot do that, then you can do it lying down. Close
Dadashri: You have to see what the mind, the intellect, the chit and the ego are doing. Just like a supervisor. What does a supervisor do when his boss tells him to supervise a task?
Questioner: He has to keep an eye on everyone and see what each one is doing.
Dadashri: He only has to supervise everything and not go and slap or interfere with anyone. In the same way, You have to see what the mind, intellect, chit and ego are doing, and only keep 'seeing
In samayik, you have to keep separating the Self and keep 'seeing the rest within the chit, the mind, the intellect, the ego and what they are doing). To see and know are the two functions of the Self, that is all. The Self does not get involved in anything else. It continues to see what happened, what the mind is doing (dharma of the mind), what the intellect is doing (dharma of the intellect). Just like when you are watching a movie and in the movie people are fighting, you do not become part of the movie, do you? You do not become emotional, do you? Similarly, just as you watch a movie, You have to watch the cinema' inside. That is samayik. It is very beneficial if you do it for forty-eight minutes.
Questioner: So then, is there no need to remember the past in this?
