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look at your actions. Your actions are a result of your past life’s
karma. But what is noted is your dhyan and what it is engaged
in while you are doing a samayik or pratikraman (ritual of asking
for forgiveness). One may be doing samayik but his dhyan is on
the hourglass or he keeps getting irritated with his disciples and
then he claims that he did samayik.
An acharya maharaj was sitting before Lord Mahavir in
samayik. The acharya was given spiritual knowledge (Gnan) but
he did not have the knowledge of vyavasthit. Another enlightened
being asked the Lord about the acharya’s future life.
The Lord replied, “At this moment he would go to a
celestial life form.”
A little later someone again asked the Lord about the
acharyas’ future life and the Lord replied, “He is destined for
a life in hell.” Fifteen minutes later someone else asked the Lord
the same question and the Lord replied that the acharya would
attain liberation.
‘Lord how can this be when the acharya is so deep in
meditation?’ they asked the Lord and the Lord said, ‘you cannot
see what I can see and what you see, I regard irrelevant. Although
the acharya is seated in m