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if he is really not a collector, and had just written the order, and
stamped it as if signed by the collector? That order would not
be valid, would it? It would not have any legal backing. Similarly,
all these ‘collectors’ – worldly spiritual teachers that prescribe
samayiks, are not true Purush.
Useless Samayik
I was sitting at a table drinking tea and a seventy-five year
old businessman (sheth) was doing samayik, when some glasses
fell in the adjacent room and broke. I am hard of hearing so I
did not hear them break, but the businessman had good hearing
and heard them. So then he calls out, ‘What broke?’ I said to
him, ‘Your atma broke! What else was going to break?’
Otherwise, if a woman were to fall, would she make such a
noise? Nothing else will break, only the glasses broke! It was
just the noise of the breaking glass. So while doing the samayik,
the man is asking, ‘What broke?’ How can you consider that a
samayik? When one does not leave the samayik even if his
wife is dying, that is called a samayik. How can you call this a
samayik? Why should you cry over broken glasses and cups?
Is it still like this everywhere?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: Is that so? So then would the cups and glasses
come alive again because you left the samayik?
Gross Karma and Subtle Karma
When Acharya Maharaj (religious head or teacher) does
pratikraman, samayik, gives a discourse or a lecture; that is his
vocation and external conduct; that is his gross (sthool) karma,
but his inner state is important. What is being charged within him
is what is going to be of benefit to him in his next life. His
conduct of today is a discharge. The entire external conduct is
in the form of discharge. And yet people claim, ‘I did a samayik.
I did auspicious (dhyan) meditation, I donated money.’ For