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What more would I want from you. I wish I can give you any thing and everything that you want. However, I honestly do not know how to give you a samayik. I do not know how to put any value to it."
Shrenik was still under the influence of his ego. He thought that Puniya was being crafty and attempting to get more gold. So he replied "Do not worry Puniya! Name your price, and I will pay it.
Puniya realized why Mahavir had sent the Emperor to him. He said, "Samayik is an effective tool that helps us to be humble and pious so that our mind and soul can become free from all passions such as greed and ego. I have practiced it for all these years to free my mind from passions and make it self-disciplined. My honorable Emperor, this being the situation with me, tell me how can I sell a samayik even if you were to offer me the whole world? In fact, no one can give away a samayik, nor can anyone buy one for all the wealth in the world. Samayik is a process of self
purification; a sadhana that takes us closer to our soul."
Samayik is an effective tool that helps us to be humble and pious so that our mind and soul can become free from all passions such as greed and ego.
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The meaning of samayik was now clear to the emperor. understood why Bhagwan Mahavir had directed him to see Puniya to learn this round-about lesson. Thereafter, emperor Shrenik became an ardent devotee of one so wise.
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