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Jainism in a Global Perspective
hun bhūlyo, āthadayo ane rakhadayo bhāri, ā samsāre vibhu vitambana thai bhāri. hum pāpi madonmatta malina karmanā rajathi viņa tautva mokṣa meņavāya nahi, prabhu, mujathi. he Paramātmā hum prapancamāhim padyo chur hum müdha, nirāśrita, mahākhuvāra thayo chun. Oh God! I forgot, wandered aimlessly, rambled here & there & I am caught in the snare of transmigratory worldly life.
I am sinful, intoxicated with pride and my soul is defiled with dust of my karmas. I am always engrossed in the machinations of worldly life, I have been blinded by ignorance I have no discriminative power, and so I am blockhead or foolish. The internationally acclaimed confession prayer of Sūradāsa is very popular & reads as follows: mo sama kaun kutilakhala kāmi. jina tanu dio tāhi bisarāyo aiso nimaka harāmi. bharibhari udara vişaya ko dhāvo jaiso sūkara grāmi papi kaun bado hai motain sabapatitana men nāmi Sūra patitako thora kahān hai suniye Sripati svāmi.
Śrī Joharilal, the mid nineteenth century poet in his famous confession poem Ālocanā Patha states :
samarambha samārambha ārambha, mana-vaca-tanakīne prārambha krtakärita - modana karikai, krodhādi catustaya dharikai śata ātha ju im bhedantai, aghakine parachedantain
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