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I can pay him right now.’
So the Lord replied, ‘Let me explain to you. Do you
realize the value of that samayik? Your entire kingdom will go
into paying only the commission for it. The commission alone,
which is three percent of your entire kingdom! The rest will still
remain to be paid. How are you going to pay that?’ So the King
says, ‘My entire kingdom will go into commission? So then
where will I get the rest? So that means that my life in hell cannot
be avoided, can it?’
The Lord said, ‘This samayik is worth so much that you
can never pay for it.’ So the King agreed and accepted that he
could not afford it and so he stopped trying, and went to hell.
He will come back as the first Tirthankar by the name of Lord
Padmanabha in the next chovisi (a time cycle of twenty-four
Tirthankars). That is the kind of samayik ‘we’ have you do
every day, but people do not realize or appreciate its value.
They ‘chew’ paan (betel nut in leaves) and then they spit it out.
They have no appreciation for its value.
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Questioner: If you give a diamond to a primitive man,
will he not see it as a piece of glass?
Dadashri: Yes, that is the way it is. It is like giving a
diamond to a child; that is what has occurred. Still, someday it
will start working. The child will grow up. Once or twice someone
will take it away from him, but then he will come to ‘Dada’ and
get it again and then he will never give it up. He will not be
deceived again when he has been punished once. He will not
give it up again, will he?
And at that time, there is great bliss (anand). When such
a samayik is done, like the one of Puniyaa Shravak, there will
be great bliss. It does not matter if, at that time, the body is
emitting vibrations; it may continue emitting vibrations. The bliss
that one feels during the samayik is because there are no
vibrations of kashays.