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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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Pratikraman
*Chandubhai's' mistakes, do You not? Whatever mistakes You
see', when You seat 'Chandubhai' in front of You in the mirror for an hour and tell him about them, that is the highest samayik.
Questioner: If I do not do it in front of the mirror, but instead I talk to the mind within, will it work?
Dadashri: No, that is not possible. 'You' should be able to 'see' 'Chandubhai' in the mirror. You will not know how to do it if you do it alone within. Only the Gnani Purush can do that. But You have to be taught at kindergarten level. It is good that mirrors exist abundantly, otherwise you would have to buy a mirror worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. Mirrors nowadays are inexpensive. Only Emperor Bharat had built a palace of mirrors in the time of Lord Rushabhdev (first Tirthankar). And today, one sees large mirrors everywhere.
All this is the science of smallest indivisible parts of matter (parmanus). But if You seat him in front of You in a mirror and do the scolding, then it is possible to achieve a lot. But no one does that does he? He does it once or twice, when 'we' instruct him; then he forgets.
Lord Rushabhdev gave the knowledge of Akram Gnan to Emperor Bharat and ultimately, when the Emperor Bharat took the help of the mirrors in his palace, that is when the Gnan expressed precisely. When he looked in the mirror, he noticed that one of his fingers looked different from his other fingers. Then he realized that the ring on that finger had fallen off. That is when he started thinking, 'The finger looks different. Was it the ring that made the finger look beautiful? It looked beautiful because of the ring and not me? In this way, he went on thinking and questioning deeply within. Then by process of elimination, *This is not mine, this is not mine...' he attained Keval Gnan - absolute enlightenment. So you should take advantage of the mirrors in the home. Ours is the science of Akram. Whoever takes advantage of this will get his work done. But no one can
know about this, can he? It does not matter if he is not Selfrealized; even then, the mirror samayik can give great benefits.
Samayik of Scolding You should go to your room and say to 'Chandubhai', 'Chandubhai, who do you think you are? Take your left hand and slap your right cheek! A young man could not get rid of his anger, so I told him, 'Scold him!' The poor man would do prarikraman all day, but still he would not listen to the pratikraman. He would go back to the way he was. So I told him to go up to the terrace and scold him. So He scolded his file number one, 'Who do you think you are?' He scolded him so hard that he burst out crying. 'He did the scolding and he began to cry and the Self became separate. The Self separates when you do such scolding.
So you should go into your room and scold 'Chandubhai.' You are to do this scolding samayik only after taking our Agna (after taking Dada's permission). Only then will pragnya (energy of the Self that arises in Gnan Vidhi) remain, otherwise something else will latch on and cause problems.
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Questioner: The process of doing samayik in the mirror and talking to the prakruti seems good when you show us; and it lasts for two to three days but then it becomes weak.
Dadashri: When weakness arises, then you should start that process all over again. Once it becomes old, all kinds of weakness will come. The nature of the pudgal is that once it gets old, it loses interest and energy. You have to start by making it new.
Questioner: So I am not able to accomplish the work through this process as I ought to, and the process ends midway.
Dadashri: That is how it will be accomplished gradually; it cannot occur all of a sudden.
