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Pratikraman
Why Only for Forty-Eight Minutes?
Questioner: Whose Agna should I take for samayik in
your absence?
Dadashri: ‘We’ (the supreme Self; Dada) are never
absent; ‘our’ presence is always there. And as far as You are
concerned, there is never an absence of ‘us’ for you; you are
very particular and shrewd!
Questioner: What is the minimum time one should do a
samayik for?
Dadashri: The minimum is eight minutes and the maximum
is forty-eight minutes.
Questioner: When I do samayik in the morning, then
after forty-eight minutes, bliss overflows.
Dadashri: Of course, there will be! Because what I have
given to you is the Self; and it is unshakable Self and You are in
samayik as the Self. Hence you will have tremendous bliss (anand).
The more still you become; the more bliss you will experience.
Questioner: Why is the samayik kept for forty-eight
minutes?
Dadashri: Not forty-seven minutes, it is for forty-eight
minutes. Do you know that if you can do a forty-eight minute
samayik for even one day, that is more than enough. It is the
glorious Self! It is the tested experience!
If one’s mind-speech-body stops for eight minutes, the
Lord has called it the beginning of a samayik, and if it stays like
that from eight minutes to forty-eight minutes, He calls it a
samayik. No one can maintain more than forty-eight minutes.
Samayik means to remain as the Self.
Samayik in the Akram Path
Questioner: In the samayik, thoughts come and at the