Samvatsari Pratikraman English

SR No.: 007738
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ila Mehta
Publisher: Ila Mehta
Publication Year: 2015
Total Pages: 408
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, M000, & M001
File Size: 28 MB

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Samvatsari Pratikramana
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Ones who are the founders of the religion, teach us the religion, are the heads of the religion, are the emperors of and guide us about charity, right behavior, austerities and right attitude (6) Ones who possess the best and indestructible knowledge, faith and conviction, and have risen from their status of ascetics (7) Ones who have triumphed over their attachments and aversions and help others win over theirs, ones who swim and help others swim across the ocean of sansar, ones who have mastered the tattvas (the truths) and help others learn them and free them of their past karmas (8)
Ones who know everything, who see everything, are beneficial to all, steady, free of diseases, imperishable, infinite, indestructible, without any worries, who have reached Siddhagati from where there is no return or rebirth, who have conquered their attachments and aversions, who have subjugated all their fears I bow down to such Jineshwars (9)
Those who have become Siddha in the past, those who will be siddha in the future and those that are living at present, I pay my obeisance to them by my thoughts, words and body (10)
This stuti is written by Shri Balchandrasuri, who was a disciple of Hemchandracharya. As Shri Balchandrasuri had a difference of opinion with his guru, his stuti was not accepted by the congregation. But after his death, he became a Vyantar dev and started troubling the people. To circumvent this problem, the congregation accepted his stuti and now it is recited in all the three big Pratikramans Pakshik, Chaumasi and Samvatsari. This stuti is written in Sanskrit in a very ornamental and descriptive style. it contains praises of the Jina, the Jinagams (scriptures) and the Shasandevs, the devs who serve the Tirthankars and protect the congregations.