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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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Pratikraman
does know that the mind is very bad, but where can he go from there? Whereas, the one who has the knowledge of the Self (Armagnan) remains separate from the mind.
Questioner: I did not understand the term,'habits and their nature.
Dadashri: Not only the habits of the mind, body, and speech but also their nature have been mentioned along with them. Nature (swabhav) means that some habits are very strong and some are very weak; the latter can be dissolved with just a few pratikramans. Those that are very strong need a lot of pratikraman. You will have to constantly keep scrubbing away before they dissolve completely.
The habits of the mind, body and speech will not go away until one dies, but You need to erase their nature (swabhav). Those habits that were bound by light interest (ras) can be removed with two to five pratikramans, whereas those that were bound by very deep interest will require up to five hundred pratikramans a day. And there are some tubers, such as tubers of greed (lobh), which are so large that even if you do two to three hours of pratikraman a day for them, they will not be gone even after six years! While others have such a tuber of greed that they can get rid of them within a day or even a few hours. That is how there are all intensity of interest inherent in the nature of the habits of the mind, speech and body.
The samayik of our Akram Vignan is different altogether. We take all tubers of mistakes within and place them in the samayik. Tubers of greed, anger, pride, etc., are placed in the samayik. These tubers' are all *gneya' (that which is to be known) and You, the Self, are the 'Gnata.' This is how You do samayik for forty-eight minutes. The tubers can dissolve through the 'Knower-known' (Gnata-gneya) relationship. The samayik that they do elsewhere is a samayik for concentration (ekagrata), whereas our samayik is for the purpose of dissolving the kashay
tubers within. The tuber that harasses you the most, the greater the number of thoughts about a certain topic, the bigger that tuber is within you.
During this pratikraman, the mind is absent; nothing else. There is a relationship of Gnata-gneya with thoughts. No thoughts will come during pratikraman; they will stop. However, if you do have thoughts then if you see and know those thoughts, then the thoughts are 'gneya'; and You are the Gnata.
Samayik Related to Sexuality Once 'we' made mahatmas do samayik for mistakes related to sexuality. They were to see deep within, going back from their current age of forty years and see what occurred. Then they were to go back to when they were thirty-nine years old and they were to see what occurred then. They were to keep going back in this manner. Some even reached the age of ten! It is a different matter that they went so far back but afterwards, they continued to see those mistakes for up to eight days. They could not stop. They continued at home even while eating and drinking. It kept gnawing and scratching them from within; they got very tired of this. So then they came and told 'us' they were exhausted from it and wanted 'us' to stop it, and so 'we' had to have it stopped. It remained turned on from within and kept finding mistakes within, non-stop. They could see all the phases like what they did at the age of twentyfive and so forth. To see the phases of that which was established in the past is our samayik.
(530) Mistakes can be washed off in this samayik. This is a samayik to see all the mistakes that occurred prior to attaining Gnan. What mistakes do you want to see"? By 'seeing the mistakes which occurred prior to attaining Gnan, in the samayik they can be washed off. They will get washed off even if You were to see them now. But if you try to recall them in your memory, you will not remember any. It is through this Gnan that
