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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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does know that the mind is very bad, but where can he go from
there? Whereas, the one who has the knowledge of the Self
(Atmagnan) remains separate from the mind.
Questioner: I did not understand the term, ‘habits and
their nature.’
Dadashri: Not only the habits of the mind, body, and
speech but also their nature have been mentioned along with
them. Nature (swabhav) means that some habits are very strong
and some are very weak; the latter can be dissolved with just
a few pratikramans. Those that are very strong need a lot of
pratikraman. You will have to constantly keep scrubbing away
before they dissolve completely.
The habits of the mind, body and speech will not go away
until one dies, but You need to erase their nature (swabhav).
Those habits that were bound by light interest (ras) can be
removed with two to five pratikramans, whereas those that
were bound by very deep interest will require up to five hundred
pratikramans a day. And there are some tubers, such as tubers
of greed (lobh), which are so large that even if you do two to
three hours of pratikraman a day for them, they will not be
gone even after six years! While others have such a tuber of
greed that they can get rid of them within a day or even a few
hours. That is how there are all intensity of interest inherent in the
nature of the habits of the mind, speech and body.
The samayik of our Akram Vignan is different altogether.
We take all tubers of mistakes within and place them in the
samayik. Tubers of greed, anger, pride, etc., are placed in the
samayik. These ‘tubers’ are all ‘gneya’ (that which is to be
known) and You, the Self, are the ‘Gnata.’ This is how You do
samayik for forty-eight minutes. The tubers can dissolve through
the ‘Knower-known’ (Gnata-gneya) relationship. The samayik
that they do elsewhere is a samayik for concentration (ekagrata),
whereas our samayik is for the purpose of dissolving the kashay