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## Agam Sutra 39, Chhed Sutra-5, 'Mahanishith'
One who renounces all worldly beginnings with auspicious rituals like studying, purpose, and holding the Brahmavat Dharana, then renounces the beginning, commencement, and origin of the stationary beings with two, three, four, and five senses in the form of earth, water, fire, air, and plants, and the non-living body, through the three-fold of mind, speech, and body, and through the three-fold of the three-fold, renounces the four types of knowledge, namely food, etc., with the restraint of the sense objects of the ear, etc., and thus washes away sins.
Then, by holding the eighteen thousand pure Shilaangas, one becomes unshakeable, unbroken, unblemished, unchallenged, beautiful, fierce, fiercer, unique, and wondrous, and sustains the Abhigraha. Then, one endures the severe hardships and afflictions inflicted by gods, humans, and animals with equanimity. After that, one makes great efforts for the sake of the image, etc., day and night. Then, one becomes free from the clinging to the body and its impurities. With the body becoming free from regression, one attains steadiness in the white meditation.
Then, one destroys the accumulated eight types of karma from the beginningless cycle of births. One escapes from the prison of the four realms of existence and becomes free from all suffering, attaining liberation. Within liberation, there is no birth, old age, death, union with the unpleasant, separation from the pleasant, distress, anxiety, disgrace, false accusations, pain of severe illness, disease, sorrow, poverty, suffering, fear, discord, etc., forever. Then, there is absolute, ultimate, complete freedom from suffering, unchangeable, permanent, eternal, and the best happiness in liberation.
The root cause of all this happiness is knowledge. This inclination begins with knowledge. Therefore, O Gautam! One who desires absolute, ultimate, supreme, eternal, permanent, continuous, and the best happiness, should first, with respect, receive the twelve-limbed Shruta-knowledge, from the Samayik Sutra to the Lokabindu-sar, along with the method of grasping time, and should wear the Upadhana, as prescribed in the scriptures and the Tapas like Ayambil, etc., after renouncing the five, namely violence, etc., through the three-fold of the three-fold, and after performing atonement for their sins. One should understand this knowledge, which is received from the mouth of a pure Guru, with proper respect, with the correct pronunciation of vowels, consonants, matras, bindu, words, letters, without speaking more or less, without the defect of word division, in a verse-bound, sequential, previous-to-previous, subsequent-to-previous, and non-subsequent-to-previous manner, as one and only.
O Gautam! Like the vast, self-illuminated, boundless ocean without beginning and end, where one can immerse oneself in happiness, the Shruta-knowledge is the ultimate cause of all happiness. To cross this ocean of knowledge, one should bow to the chosen deity. Without bowing to the chosen deity, one cannot cross it. Therefore, O Gautam! If there is a chosen deity, it is the Navkar, which is the Panchamangal. There is no other chosen deity or auspiciousness equal to it. Therefore, it is essential to first wear the Upadhana of the Panchamangal. Sutra - 493
O Bhagavant! How should one wear the Upadhana of the Panchamangal? O Gautam! We will explain further, one should wear the Upadhana of the Panchamangal in that way.
When the time, karana, muhurta, nakshatra, yoga, lagna, and moon strength are very auspicious and beautiful, one who is free from the eight types of intoxication, has unwavering faith and devotion, whose devotion is greatly increased, who experiences great and intense joy, who has a good resolve, who has complete devotion and respect, who is free from the desire for any kind of worldly or otherworldly fruits, and who has continuously performed five fasts with the Pacchakkhana, should reside in a place free from living beings in a Jain temple, with a head full of devotion, with the body tingling with joy, with eyes like blooming lotus flowers with a hundred petals, with a calm, gentle, and steady gaze, and with waves of devotion rising in the lake of the heart.
One who experiences great and intense joy, who is free from internal darkness, who is inconceivable, supremely auspicious, and who has a special outcome, should, with the utmost respect, wear the Upadhana of the Panchamangal.
Muni Diperatnasagar Krit (Mahanishith) Agam Sutra - Hindi Translation
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