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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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Pratikraman
Dadashri: You are not to recall the past; you are to do the samayik. Samayik means the Self continues to simply 'see that which jumps around within. During that time, the Self is completely the Knower and the Seer (Gnata-Drashta).
Samayik is For Shuddha Upayog
Dadashri: If you cannot sit in the samayik, then whenever the tuber within sprouts and sexual thoughts arise, cleansing them with Gnan is called awareness (jagruti). Ultimately, if nothing else, then even if you say, "This thought is not mine,' You become free from it. Whenever the thought arises and the 'vision is spoilt, and it becomes sexual, saying, 'This is not mine,' will stop
Questioner: Is there a need for samayik in the path of Akram?
Dadashri: If you have the awareness of 'Dada' (the Self), if other awareness prevails, if you have learned to remain within the Five Agnas, then it is fine if you do not do samayik. (524)
However, you all have to do samayik for wherever you have entered into the mistakes of sexuality (abrahmacharya) or other similar mistakes.
Questioner: So in doing that, it is not necessary to do an hour long samayik.
Dadashri: It is good if you can do this samayik. But if you cannot, then as the mistakes arise within, you have to keep getting rid of them in this manner.
Questioner: My desire is to do samayik and yet why is it that I am not able to sit and do it?
Dadashri: You will be able to do so when you sit down to do it as a group. You will not find it easy to do it by yourself
There is strength in numbers. A special environment arises when people sit in a group. So you should all sit down again as a group for samayik.
Questioner: How can we arrange it such that we reap the most benefit?
Questioner: The interest to do samayik has not arisen
yet.
Dadashri: It is not mandatory that you do samayik. There is no problem if you can maintain 'shuddha upayog (pure awareness as the Self)'. Samayik is to be done in order to maintain 'shuddha upayog' and not the other way around, meaning you don't have to maintain shuddha upayog in order to do samayik. Tuber of Sexuality Dissolves with Samayik
Questioner: I am young so, my tuber of sexuality (vishay granthi) is large. So that tuber will only dissolve if my upayog, focus of awakened awareness, is in samayik, am I right?
Dadashri: The more people that get together, the greater the benefit. There is an effect of the satsang. When you sit down to do samayik, if there are ten-twelve people, then the samayik will go well. It will not have the same effect if you were to do it alone. The effect arises from the group.
There is No Doership in This
Dadashri: Yes, it will dissolve just by seeing' it.
Questioner: Yes, so I have to dissolve it by constantly 'seeing' it. That is why it is good if I sit in the samayik, is it not? But I do not feel that I want to sit in the samayik.
Questioner: This is about our science; that is why. You have said that we should do samayik for forty-eight minutes to dissolve our tubers of kashay?
