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suffers in the repeated beating, the intellect (buddhi) increases.
As the intellect increases, so does his inner turmoil and that is
when he seeks shelter of the religion of the Self.
Jagat Kalyan
Questioner: Dada, what should one do if a person gets
tired while reading scriptures, while doing samayik, while doing
pratikraman, while worshipping (bhakti)?
Dadashri: What has God considered to be a samayik?
He has said that for the one who does not experience
artadhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self), or
raudradhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self and
others), the entire day is samayik. How wise Lord Mahavir is!
He does not leave anything to you to work for. And the Lord
will not accept even a single samayik of these people (who do
not have Self-realization). One’s artadhyan and raudradhyan
must stop for a period of 48 minutes (gunthanu). When you do
samayik with the belief, ‘I am Chandubhai’, it is like cutting
down a neem tree; it will grow back and it will still be bitter,
won’t it? Even if we add sugar to it after we cut it down, why
does it still remain bitter?
Questioner: Yes, its very core is bitter Dada.
Dadashri: It is that way by nature. Similarly if ‘Chandubhai’
stops all attachment and abhorrence (raag and dwesh) and sits
to do samayik, what will he meditate upon when he has not
known or understood the Self, and when he does not know
what illusion is or what wrong belief is? So what can even a big
VIP do if he sits down to do samayik, but he does not know
anything else? So such people create a little circle around them
and if thoughts of their business, money, or sex creep in, they
keep pushing them outside the circle. Just as you shoo away
young baby calves or dogs when they come into your
compound; that is what they call samayik. Even then one can
do this type of samayik because artadhyan and raudradhyan