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higher joys, obtains for man all prosperity and releases the Jivas from the struggles of births and deaths.
My heart salutes infinite times the Navakara that is possessed of inconceivable power, which saves from all calamities in life and leads man to the highest state; endows one with blessings and happiness and gets the status of Siddha for man.
The gentleman who has narrated this is a nonJain by birth. Still, due to the Satsanga of late revered Pannyasa Shri Bhadamkara Vijayaji M. S., a unique propitiator of the Navakara Mahamantra, he resorted to the Jain dharma and attained to very high sublimation of his Atma. He delivered laudable lectures on the Navakara Mahamantra in assemblies at Vadala Nalasopara and Dombivali under our chairmanship. - Editor