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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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Dadashri: So then you should do that work. Do the
work where your dhyan goes. What will you gain by doing
things where it does not remain? All your efforts will be wasted
and you will not gain anything.
Living a Good Worldly Life is Itself a Samayik
Seeker: I have made a firm decision that I want to do
certain kriyas (rituals) every day, so what will occur about that?
Dadashri: It will go to waste. All your efforts will be in
vain. Spend less effort but make the effort meaningful. And live
well in the worldly life (sansar).
Do samayik in it; there is samayik in the worldly life.
Raising your children without scolding them, not getting angry
with them; that in itself is a samayik. What is the point of doing
this samayik? Do samayik with your children, with your husband,
with your mother-in-law, with your sister-in-law. Do all those
samayiks. It is worth doing if your mind is in it. What good is
a samayik in which your mind is not engaged?
Seeker: But these are daily rituals and routines, so I keep
doing them.
Dadashri: Yes, but what is the point in doing it if your
mind is not in it? Your chit should be in it, should it not?
Seeker: The chit does not remain in it.
Dadashri: Then what will you do?
Seeker: That is what we have come to ask from you.
Dadashri: Yes. So this is not dear to you. You do not
like this. You like your children and other things. The chit will
always go to things you like. Remove the value of your children,
devalue them and increase the value of this (samayik), then you
will benefit from it; how can it be otherwise?
If you want to do samayik, then do the samayik of