Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts (Full Version) Pratikraman: The Key That Resolves All Conflicts

UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK 547 Such a samayik is possible in the current era. Is it not a mistake if you do not take advantage of it? If you keep the upayog (focused, awakened awareness) of seeing the relative and the real as separate for one hour, the Lord has called this upayog, shuddha upayog – pure awakened awareness. If that pure upayog can be maintained for forty-eight minutes (one gunthanu), then it is possible to attain Puniyaa Shravak’s samayik. So take advantage of that if you can. No matter what the mind instigates from within, tell it, ‘Stay out right now and come back in an hour if you want to. Whatever is to come, come later.’ Inside, there are all kinds of things that will come to complain and make noise. Tell them all to be quiet for an hour. Tell them to come back in an hour because your samayik is going on. No one has a right to enter the ‘home department.’ Tell them, ‘Shut up and stay in the relative department. I will deal with you when I come out of my home department after an hour.’ If you say this, they will stop automatically. They will behave the way you order them to, because all those things are non-living (nischetan), but they have been powered with the energy of the animate (sachetan), so they have become alive – sachetan. So do Puniyaa Shravak’s samayik for an hour and everything will be shed and vanish! That Which Makes You Forget the World is Samayik What does samayik mean? It is that which makes you forget the world. Even if there is ‘interesting’ discussion about fugitives and outlaws, it makes you forget them. When you go home and the dinner is not ready, you get upset and irritated. So then you start reading a book. After awhile, your wife calls out saying that dinner is ready, but you don’t get up to eat. Hey, you! How come? You say you became engrossed reading the book. That is because habits (sanskars) that make men fall (attributes that impact negatively, against spirituality), will make

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