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Saiyam Parinam
What Is the Exact Definition of Saiyam?
There are two types of saiyam (self-discipline); external
and internal.
The Lord does not consider external (visible through
mind, speech and body) saiyam as saiyam. That saiyam is
dependent upon the unfolding of karma. To say, “I maintained
saiyam”, when saiyam is dependent on unfolding karma, is an
illusion (bhranti).
Questioner: What is saiyam parinam in the true sense?
Dadashri: Sampurna saiyam (complete discipline) is
when par-parinati (state of the non-Self) does not arise at all.
This begins when all the tendencies (vruttis) return home to the
Self. The beginning of the ‘fractional change’ is called saiyam.
The state of saiyam parinam happens after one attains Self-
realization.
Saiyam of sense pleasures (vishay) is not considered
saiyam. Absence of anger, pride, deceit and greed is called
saiyam parinam. Otherwise, the renunciation people do is just
of worldly things; they renounce money, they renounce sex, and
we are not negating it, but that is called tyaag (renunciation). It
is not the saiyam the Lord has spoken of. The saiyam of the
physical body is not called saiyam, as that saiyam is dependent
upon circumstances; it is an effect of previously charged
karmas. Whereas, the saiyamit mun (the disciplined mind), the