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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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the nature of the current time cycle.
Seeker: How can we know that the samayik we are
doing is wrong? We do it with the assurance and hope that we
are doing the right thing.
Dadashri: You can do the right samayik after knowing
the Self, not until then. Until then, it is a good tool to still the
mind and the body.
They are all worldly (laukik) samayiks, whereas this is
beyond the worldly, of the Self (alaukik). It is to still the
‘vyavahar atma’ (relative self, non-Self complex). After attaining
Gnan, You can still the relative self, can You not? How is it
possible to do so without knowing the Self? The Gnan that is
attained will keep making the relative self still. There is great
awareness (jagruti) here, whereas over there, there is no
awareness at all.
Who is the Doer of Samayik?
If a person does samayik, he will tell people, ‘I do four
samayiks every day. That man does only one.’ So you will
understand that he has the egoism of doing samayik, and that
is why he sees the mistake of the other person by saying, ‘He
does only one samayik, whereas I do four.’ Then, if you were
to visit him after a few days and ask him, ‘Why are you not
doing samayik today?’ He will tell you, ‘My legs are hurting.’
So ‘we’ ask him, ‘Do your legs do the samayik, or do you?
If your legs do the samayik, then you were lying before when
you told me that you did the samayik.’ Therefore, one needs
his legs to be healthy, his mind to be healthy, and his intellect
and ego must be accommodating in order to do samayik. All
the circumstances have to be right for a samayik to occur.
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Even the ego has to be straight at that time; otherwise, the
samayik will not occur. Therefore, when all these circumstances