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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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You are able to 'see' them all. In the presence of the Self, everything can be seen.' You can 'see' it all the way back; You can see your entire life and all the mistakes related to sexual matters...
Questioner: I did samayik on sexuality related mistakes. Dadashri: Yes, You will be able to 'see' all sexual mistakes that took place all the way back. As You keep 'seeing,' You will 'see' them all the way back to when you were twelve years old. You will see all the way back to when they started. Whatever You 'see,' from the beginning until the end, will all go
away.
Keep Tearing Away All the Paintings That You Had Painted
And what is a samayik? Whatever habit you have, for example, like that man who said that he has a habit of reading: so to break the habit of reading, imagine a pile of books in front of you, then remain the Knower-Seer and keep ripping those books. Do that for an hour. You just 'see' and tell 'Chandubhai' to rip all those books. Thus the tuber of reading will dissolve. If you have a tuber of greed, then place the tuber of greed in your samayik. Samayik is an instrument to dissolve tubers. You have all these tubers within you and so you will have to become tuber-free (nirgranth) one day. You have no choice but become tuber-less.
Begin Samayik in This Manner
Questioner: How many atikramans must I have done in my past life? What kind of atikraman? What did I do in the past life? I have no knowledge of that. How can I know about them?
Dadashri: What do you have to do with the past life? You have to wash off the atikramans you have done in this life.
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Pratikraman
Questioner: I do not even know all the atikramans I have done in this life.
Dadashri: You will be able to 'see' in detail all the atikramans you have done in this life, if You make it a point that you want to track it all down in a samayik. Then you will be able to find it very precisely.
Today, do one samayik.
Questioner: Yes, how should I do the samayik?
Dadashri: Yes. From the time you were young up until now, whomever you have made mistakes with, made mistakes of violence (himsa) with any living being, whomever you have hurt, whomever you have spoken harshly to and hurt; these are all mistakes related to himsa (violence).
Then 'see' mistakes about lying, cheating, mistakes of sexual nature, attachment to things and acquisitiveness (parigraha). Whatever mistakes of this nature you have committed, recall all these mistakes, bow to Simandhar Swami or Dada Bhagwan, and ask for forgiveness. Do this much; can you do that much?
Questioner: I can. However many I am able to remember,
I will.
Dadashri: Do them for as long as you can recall these mistakes; continue doing pratikraman for them. The one who has the desire to see his own mistakes will not refrain from *seeing' them. In the Lord's path, straightforwardness is the easy path to liberation. It is the highest path. If a person does not become straightforward, then he is not in the Lord's path. (532)
If you have hurt any animals in your childhood; if you have thrown a stone at a monkey, You will be able to 'see' all that within. You will be able to 'see' all the different phases, if you
