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Pratikraman
Seeker: One needs to look to see if the time is over or
not.
Dadashri: You do not have to keep looking at that. When
you look and see that the sand has fallen through, you will know
that the samayik is over. Samayik is to increase the strength of
the mind (manobud) and it increases your faith in the Self.
Seeker: One will bind merit karma (punya) with it, right?
Dadashri: Yes, the punya increases. If you are able to
keep the mind confined within the circle, you will increase your
merit karma for sure.
Seeker: But the mind does not remain confined within the
circle. It wanders everywhere.
Dadashri: Then that samayik is not considered complete.
For however long the mind remains in the circle, that much of
it is samayik. That is worldly (vyavahar) samayik and the real
samayik is one which takes place everywhere you go.
Such a Samayik is Useless
Seeker: I do samayik, pratikraman and all other rituals
but I cannot maintain my attention in what I do.
Dadashri: Then what good is that? What good is it if
your dhyan (natural meditation and attention) is not in it? It is
only good if there is dhyan in it. Where does your attention
(dhyan) lie?
Seeker: It goes into the worldly life (sansar).
Dadashri: But what do you like about the sansar? When
it (the chit) leaves from here, it will go and sit somewhere else,
will it not? So where does your mind (mun) sit?
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Seeker: It goes into whatever work I may be involved
with at that time. If there is any work at home that I am doing,
it will go there.