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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
community) could 'see'?
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Questioner: I 'saw' very clearly.
Dadashri: They will not let even a snake go by without killing it first. Such are the patidars. If such patidars can 'see' too, then what kind of an Arma they must have attained?
This is considered the wonder of the world! To attain one hour of Puniyaa Shravak's samayik, it would take King Shrenik's entire kingdom just to cover the commission for it, so imagine the total value of this one hour! Do you now understand what Dada has given to you?
Then It Will Automatically Keep Searching for Mistakes Within
Dadashri: Have you lost anything by sitting the whole day with 'me'?
Questioner: I have not lost anything.
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Dadashri: So then why do you not run around with 'me'? What is wrong with running around with 'me' instead of running around the world?
Questioner: That is major running around; this with You, Dada, cannot be called running around.
Dadashri: You have been given the reign of the whole universe. I have given you something that no sadhu or acharya will ever attain.
I have helped You launch Your kite with, 'I am Shuddhatma. A while ago, I had people do samayik on violence (himsa), so when they went home, they kept seeing their mistakes of violence even when they went to the bathroom. It would not stop. It continued like that for three days. It kept bothering them because it kept going deeper and deeper, seeking mistakes of violence. I had to put a stop to it by doing a vidhi.
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Why Only for Forty-Eight Minutes? Questioner: Whose Agna should I take for samayik in your absence?
Dadashri: 'We' (the supreme Self; Dada) are never absent; 'our' presence is always there. And as far as You are concerned, there is never an absence of 'us' for you; you are very particular and shrewd!
Questioner: What is the minimum time one should do a samayik for?
Dadashri: The minimum is eight minutes and the maximum is forty-eight minutes.
Questioner: When I do samayik in the morning, then after forty-eight minutes, bliss overflows.
Dadashri: Of course, there will be! Because what I have given to you is the Self; and it is unshakable Self and You are in samayik as the Self. Hence you will have tremendous bliss (anand). The more still you become; the more bliss you will experience. Questioner: Why is the samayik kept for forty-eight
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Dadashri: Not forty-seven minutes, it is for forty-eight minutes. Do you know that if you can do a forty-eight minute samayik for even one day, that is more than enough. It is the glorious Self! It is the tested experience!
If one's mind-speech-body stops for eight minutes, the Lord has called it the beginning of a samayik, and if it stays like that from eight minutes to forty-eight minutes, He calls it a samayik. No one can maintain more than forty-eight minutes. Samayik means to remain as the Self.
Samayik in the Akram Path
Questioner: In the samayik, thoughts come and at the
