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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
551
That Which Does Not Allow Kashay to Occur
When you go to buy vegetables in the morning, ‘seeing’
Shuddhatma (pure Soul) in everyone, is anyone likely to get
upset with you? Is that so? Will the donkey complain, ‘Why are
you looking at the Shuddhatma in me?’ Will it say that? Therefore,
that is equanimity (samata) and not vishamta (imbalance;
uneven). It becomes a problem when you try to balance using
‘frogs’ as weights! You will not find equanimity there. (520)
It is like this: say you have a five-pound weight on a scale
and you want to increase it to ten pounds, then you have to put
five pounds weight on the scale. So having used the five pounds,
you have to add another five pounds; then you will be able to
weigh ten pounds. What does one do to add another five pounds
of weight if one does not have anything to increase the weight
with? So what did one man do? He put frogs on the scale! But
by the time he went to add two more frogs, the other three
would jump off. So as he tried to catch them and put them back
on, the others would jump off. So he would never be able to
keep the scale steady. That is what occurs with these people’s
samayik.
So their scales would keep tipping back and forth. In this
manner, one can never do a samayik using ‘frog weights.’ If we
were to compare it with ‘frog weights,’ people would start
quarrelling. ‘Hey, you! You are calling our samayik ‘frog
weights’?’ Very well, we will not call it that. We will just say that
the scales keep tipping back and forth. But otherwise, it is like
the ‘frog weights,’ is it not? By the time you get two of them on,
three would jump off. Can you have a stable scale?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: So the exact meaning of samayik has been
revealed today. That which was in the hearts of the Tirthankars,
is not what is being practiced today. For two thousand years, no