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Dravyasamgraha
By the power of this mantra, the soul soiled with karmic mire gets sanitized and the wise gets rid of the worldly sufferings.
This mantra is a friend, like no other, in the hour of need, of all souls desirous of achieving liberation.
There are umpteen narrations in Jaina Scriptures that even animals who had earlier committed dreadful sins, including himsa of many living beings, have achieved heavenly abodes just by listening and making obeisance to this mantra.
The wise who meditates on this mantra and recites it one hundred and eight times with due concentration, observing the purity of mind, speech and body, earns the fruit of one day's fasting.
Meditate on the supreme wisdom contained in this mantra of sixteen letters which inheres the names of the five supreme beings (Panca Parameșthi):
अर्हत्सिद्धाचार्योपाध्यायसर्वसाधुभ्यो नमः ॥ One who meditates on this sixteen-letter mantra and recites it two hundred times with due concentration earns the fruit of one day's fasting.
This mantra of six letters, harbinger of virtue, has the power of providing fruit of one day's fasting to anyone who recites it three hundred times:
अरहन्त सिद्ध ॥
These mantras of five letters are like the nectar derived from
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