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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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me the samayik. You live in my kingdom. I will give you whatever
you ask for it. Give me the fruit of your forty-eight minute
samayik; give it to me. Just say to me, ‘I give it to you; I
surrender it to you.’ That is all!’ So Puniyaa Shravak replies,
‘Sir, I cannot give you that. It is not something that I can give
to you.’ So the King asks, ‘Why not? You will have to give it
to me. I do not want to hear the word ‘no.” Shravak says, ‘I
cannot give it to you until the Lord says so.’
The King tells him, ‘The Lord has told me to get the
samayik from you, so name your price.’ So then Shravak gives
in and agrees to give it to him, since the Lord had said so. The
King thought it would be a promise that would exchange hands
and so he asked Puniyaa Shravak for his asking price. Since he
was the King, naturally he would not do anything that would
bring an obligation on him. So the King asks Puniyaa Shravak
again, ‘Tell me your price,’ to which Puniyaa Shravak replies, ‘I
will charge you whatever the Lord says to.’
The King thought, since Puniyaa Shravak has agreed to
give it to me, Lord will not have any problems. So he comes to
the Lord and says, ‘I had a good fortune today.’ The Lord
asked him, ‘What was that good fortune?’ And the king replied,
‘Shravak has agreed to give me the samayik. He has happily
agreed to do so. So now I will not have to go to hell, will I?’
The Lord asked, ‘How did he give it to you?’ The King thought
the Lord would make him pay Shravak five or ten hundred
thousand rupees; what else would he do? All that for forty-eight
minutes!
He thought, now I will not have to go to hell. The Lord
replied, ‘Then you will not have to. But who told you this? How
did he give you the samayik?’ The King replied, ‘He has left it
up to You, my Lord. You just tell me the price and I will pay
him.’ The Lord questioned, ‘He left it up to me? Of course, I
would know its worth, wouldn’t I? And I cannot say anything
wrong, can I?’ So then the King said, ‘Tell me the price so that