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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
583
‘Chandubhai’s’ mistakes, do You not? Whatever mistakes You
‘see’, when You seat ‘Chandubhai’ in front of You in the mirror
for an hour and tell him about them, that is the highest samayik.
Questioner: If I do not do it in front of the mirror, but
instead I talk to the mind within, will it work?
Dadashri: No, that is not possible. ‘You’ should be able
to ‘see’ ‘Chandubhai’ in the mirror. You will not know how to
do it if You do it alone within. Only the Gnani Purush can do
that. But You have to be taught at kindergarten level. It is good
that mirrors exist abundantly; otherwise you would have to buy
a mirror worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. Mirrors
nowadays are inexpensive. Only Emperor Bharat had built a
palace of mirrors in the time of Lord Rushabhdev (first
Tirthankar). And today, one sees large mirrors everywhere.
All this is the science of smallest indivisible parts of matter
(parmanus). But if You seat him in front of You in a mirror and
do the scolding, then it is possible to achieve a lot. But no one
does that, does he? He does it once or twice, when ‘we’ instruct
him; then he forgets.
Lord Rushabhdev gave the knowledge of Akram Gnan
to Emperor Bharat and ultimately, when the Emperor Bharat
took the help of the mirrors in his palace, that is when the Gnan
expressed precisely. When he looked in the mirror, he noticed
that one of his fingers looked different from his other fingers.
Then he realized that the ring on that finger had fallen off. That
is when he started thinking, ‘The finger looks different. Was it
the ring that made the finger look beautiful? It looked beautiful
because of the ring and not me?’ In this way, he went on thinking
and questioning deeply within. Then by process of elimination,
‘This is not mine, this is not mine…’ he attained Keval Gnan
– absolute enlightenment. So you should take advantage of the
mirrors in the home. Ours is the science of Akram. Whoever
takes advantage of this will get his work done. But no one can