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Let Go of the Reins
Then the Practice of ‘Doership’ Will Go Away!
Here, in Akram, we do not have worldly samayik,
dhyan, or any other rituals. All that, you find on the outside.
Worldly samayik or dhyan means that you decide on an
external boundary for yourself and then you do not allow
anything to enter into it. You continue to push out anything that
tries to come into it. But things will come in even if you try to
keep them out. Whereas in our samayik, You simply have to
“see” what enters, and what happens within. You just have to go
on ‘seeing’ all the thoughts that come along, whether they are
good thoughts or bad thoughts. When you watch a movie and
you see the actors fighting and creating havoc, you do not get
emotional, do you? Just as it is in a cinema, so it is a ‘cinema’
within you. This samayik is like watching a movie within you. It
is indeed beneficial, especially if you do it for forty-eight minutes.
Just try this experiment, of letting go of the reins, just
one day of the week. On Sunday, let go of your reins early in
the morning and say, “Dada, I am handing this rope over to
you.” Hand over to Dada the reins of all the five “horses” (the
senses), and then just see how they all run. I will not let this
“chariot” fall into a ditch or do anything else. You do not know
how to handle the reins which is why you let go of them on a
downward slope and keep pulling hard while going uphill and
so the poor “horses” get exhausted and bleed from their
mouths. That is why Lord Krishna told Arjun to sit and let him
guide the chariot. Arjun’s chariot began to run straight when