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repeat those mistakes in future.
Questioner : What if we keep seeing the same mistakes
over and over, when doing samayik?
Dadashri : Ask for forgiveness as long as you keep
seeing mistakes. Ask for forgiveness, do repentance and
pratikraman with remorse over it.
Questioner : Just now when I sat in samayik, why did
I keep seeing the same things over and over again?
Dadashri : That will come, as long as those atoms are
still there within you. What problem does that cause you anyway ?
Questioner : Does it mean that they keep coming
because they have not been cleansed properly?
Dadashri : No. That stock is there and will remain for
a very long time. It will remain for about tens of years, but you
have to persevere to remove it all.
Questioner : This science of uprooting the two-leaf
sapling of sexual thought, is it such that on doing this sincerely
one will win and attain lasting brahmacharya?
Dadashri : Yes, but sex is such a thing that if you get
involved in it, you will loose the awareness of the Self. Therefore,
this tuber is harmful. When the tuber of sexuality sprouts the
result is the sexual impulse, and it is like a two leaf sapling.
Generally the impulse is so strong that one becomes engrossed
in it, becomes one with it. This engrossment is called vishaya.
It cannot be called vishaya, without being engrossed in it. There
should be so much awareness, when this tuber sprouts as a
sapling of sexual impulse, that if you uproot and discard it, just
like discarding the thought as soon it arises, you would not
become engrossed in it. Then it will not touch you. Then the
tuber still exists and may sprout again and again when the