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of the mind, speech and body and I also know the nature of
‘my’ own Self.’ Therefore, You have to dissolve the nature of
the mind, speech and body. When someone asks me how it can
be dissolved, I tell him, ‘By ‘seeing’ what the nature of the mind,
body and speech is. By ‘seeing’ how intense and dense it is.’
Can you not know the density of it?
Questioner: Yes, I can.
Dadashri: So You have to take the nature (swabhav) of
that habit and make it the focus of Your samayik. In doing so,
that much of ‘the nature’ will be dissolved. Then you take another
‘nature’ of another habit. So the samayik is for the purpose of
dissolving these tubers of kashays. Our path is Akram and is
without any specific steps. So in order to dissolve the nature of
different habits, you have to ‘do’ the samayik. If it was not for
these kashays, this Gnan is such that one will be verily in samayik
the whole day long.
Absence of kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is called
samayik. That is true samayik. But how are people to be free
from kashays?
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For us here, there is samayik the whole day long, but
why do we have to do this particular samayik? It is to get rid
of all the karmic baggage from the past life that still remains
within. There is a lot of baggage within. There are so many
‘spices’ within; you have even brought them from many other
markets. Hey, you! Why don’t you just buy from the Indian
market? But he will say, ‘No this looks like potatoes!’ In this
way, so many different kinds of things have been filled within. It
is shameful even to discuss this!
Worldly Samayik
In the vyavahar samayik, worldly samayik, one tries to
still the mind just like a cow that will be kept confined within a
certain area. If the mind wanders outside its limit, one will keep