Samayika - Meditation Practice
Regular practice of meditation for at least 48 minutes daily.
Samayika is a core Jain practice of sitting in meditation for 48 minutes (one muhurta). During this time, one withdraws from worldly concerns and focuses on the soul's nature and spiritual truths.
In samayika, the soul tastes its true nature.
Samayika gives regular experience of the equanimity that defines liberation.
Daily Practice
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- What Jainism says about illness and the body failing
Samayika is forty-eight minutes — one muhurta — of sitting withdrawn from worldly concern. It is the practice that survives almost any physical decline, and Jainism counts it as real spiritual work, not a consolation prize for people who can no longer fast or walk.