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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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Questioner: If one 'sees' mistakes in the 'samayikpratikraman' process and does pratikraman, then one still has to suffer the effect of those mistakes, does one not?
Dadashri: No, they are washed off. Some sticky ones may remain. But what are they like? They will stick to the wall, but the minute you touch them, they will fall away.
Questioner: How should I do pratikraman of the mistakes that I 'see' in the samayik?
Dadashri: There is no need for pratikraman of all that You 'see' in the samayik. That which You 'see' is all gone. Pratikraman has to be done for those that are not 'seen' ('seeing' was not done through the Self, or when the person gets hurt). What You 'saw' is cleared. It became clean the moment You 'saw' it.
Questioner: But it will be 'seen' again, will it not?
Dadashri: You 'see' different phases, layers again. By 'seeing,' it is like peeling away of one layer of an onion at a time. It will still look like an onion.
Questioner: But I can 'see' the same scene (drashya), that which is to be 'seen' again, can I not?
Dadashri: You (the Self) cannot 'see' the same drashya (scene) again; You cannot 'see' it twice.
Questioner: If I do pratikraman for an enmity (veyr) towards someone, do I have to do pratikraman for the same person again?
Dadashri: Yes, when you do pratikraman for a major mistake that exists, you peel off one layer, but hundreds of thousands of other layers still remain intact. Those layers are deeper. So you will have to keep on doing pratikraman until those layers are finished. With some people, your account of karma will be paid off in a month or two of pratikraman. And
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with some, it continues for the whole life. That tuber (granthi) is very large. When you peel off one layer of this onion, will you not see the onion again? Similarly, mistakes have layers. So by doing pratikraman once, you definitely peel one layer off. So you do not have to do pratikraman for that layer again. One (544) layer requires only one pratikraman.
Effect of Dada's Presence or Absence
Questioner: The experience we have when we do this pratikraman and samayik in Dadashri's presence, does it also occur in Dadashri's absence?
Dadashri: No, the experience is much better if Dada's presence is there. There will be no external effect and the atmosphere is of a very high level. And when I also say, 'I am Shuddhatma' five or six times, that works a lot for You too. 'Our' words have a lot of effect.
Questioner: But the effect is still there, even in Dadashri's absence, is it not?
Dadashri: You can do it, you can do it; it is just that things will go back and forth, that is all. Even then, it is more than enough even if it occurs for two minutes. Some people have an immediate experience. The samayik that 'we' have You do here is a great purusharth (spiritual effort as the Self). It is a vitamin for the Self. In the worldly dealings, you have to take vitamins for the body. This is the vitamin that you have to take for the Self. For You, the whole day and the whole life is a samayik. Does it not remain even when you are driving the car? That is how it should be. Atma (the Self) itself is samayik. There is infinite energy within, it is just that it has not manifested fully yet.
Samayik of Separation
'We' are showing you the samayik to separate the Self
