Duration
The ''sāmāyika'' is performed for an ''antara-muhurta'' (about 48 minutes) every day.Procedure
In performing ''sāmāyika'', the ''śrāvaka'' has to stand facing north or east and bow to the '' Pañca-Parameṣṭhi''. He then sit down and recites thePosture
The posture for ''sāmāyika'' may be either — # ''padma āsana'', the sitting posture, with inter-locked legs (the right one placed on the left thigh and the left on the right), the hands placed in the lap with the palms facing upwards (the right one being on the top), and with attention fixed on the foremost point of the nose; # ''khadga āsana'', the standing posture, with feet at a distance of about two inches from each other, the hands resting naturally by the sides, but not so as to touch the body; and attention fixed on the point of the nose as in the ''padma āsana''; or # ''ardha padma āsana'' or the semi-padma posture, which differs from the padma in respect of the position of the left leg, which is placed under the right thigh.Great vows
The householders, due to the absence of all sinful activities during the period of meditation (''sāmāyika''), observe great vows, although the conduct-deluding ''karmas'' remain in operation. According to ''Achārya Pujyapada's Sarvārthasiddhi'':Transgressions
Jain texts list down five transgressions of the vow of ''sāmāyika''. These are- Misdirected activity of the speech, mind, and body, lack of earnestness, and absent mindedness. In performing the ''samayika'' meditation the following points are prescribed for the monk: #she should not perform it disrespectfully, #nor filled with pride of learning, #nor to be considered pious by her fellow-women, #nor in a manner to cause disturbance to any other living being, #she should not move the body about at the time, #nor force it into a crooked position, e.g. bending the fingers. #not contract or gather together the bodily limbs, #not raise herself up and down like a fish on the top of a wave; #she should rid her mind of all cruel thoughts; #she should not encircle her knees with her hands; #she should not become engaged in its performance imbued with fear, #or with disgust, or without understanding its aim, #or filled with conceit at her supernatural acquisitions (if any), #nor with pride of birth; #she should not take to it (samayika) sneakingly, that is as a thief, i.e., behind the back of the (preceptor), #nor neglect its proper time, #she should not allow the mind to be filled with unholy thoughts of hatred and the like for others; #she should not excite fear in any one’s heart, #not talk to any one at the time, #nor think evil of any one, #nor suffer herself to frown, #nor entertain ungenerous sentiments in her heart, #nor allow her gaze to wander about in different directions, #nor sit down without carefully inspecting the ground, to avoid causing injury to insect life, #nor lose interest in the middle of the process. #nor should she neglect it altogether for the want of any of the necessary accessories, #she shouldn't allow her heart to be assailed by desire for sense-gratification, #nor omit to recite the whole of the recitation, nor get up in the middle (that is, before the end of the text appointed for the purpose), #nor blur over her words, nor hurry over some parts and linger unnecessarily over others; #nor mumble, like a dumb person, nor make faces or signs, #nor vociferate in a croaky voice, like a frog; and, #she should not allow her mind to play the truant at the time, that is, to run after the good things of the world.References
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