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pushing away all external thoughts. That kind of worldly samayik
is done in the worldly life.
Seeker: Is it what the ascetics and the monks do in a Jain
meditation hall (apasara, upashraya)?
Dadashri: All that involves the mind. It is all worldly in
nature. It is all aimed at making the mind still. The mind will not
remain still, will it? It is great if they can still the mind for an hour.
Then the energy of the mind will increase. And one gains that
much space. So for that duration of time, he stops binding karma
and that will improve his coming life. They obstruct the mind;
they make it still. This binds merit karma (punya).
Seeker: There may be a rare person whose mind can
remain confined within the circle. When they go to the Jain
monastery (the upashraya) where discourses are going on,
people will sit in samayik, but their minds are always wandering
outside; they never remain still.
Dadashri: The mind is not in the discourse; it is the chit
that remains in the discourse and that, too, if he likes the discourse.
If one likes the discourse of the guru, then his chit will remain
there for a little while; it will not wander off outside. And the
mind simply does the thinking on one side. Only when the mind
can be brought under control can one make any progress. That
is when samayik occurs properly.
Seeker: If someone has been told to recite the Navkar
Mantra a hundred times in the samayik, his attention will be on
when he will finish the hundredth mantra.
Dadashri: Yes, there they are always in a rush. Even
during the samayik, they will keep looking at the hourglass.
Then he says paushadha, but what good does that do sitting in
the monastery? People of other castes say, ‘When we take a
bull to drink water, we say posho… posho…- that is how the
bull is prompted to drink water.’ Paushadha-vrat means to