Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

Page 288

THE DEVA, SASTRA AND GURU PUJA
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May those great saints protect us, who possess the Kamarupitva, the vasitoa, the esvarya, the prakamya, the antarddhi, the apli and the apratighala riddhis!
(Note. The power to change one's form is termed the Kamarupitoa ; the vasilva is the power to make all beings love one; the lordship of the world is the esvarya; to walk over water and to penetrate into earth arise from the prakamya; to become invisible is the function of the antardha; the ability to touch the sun and the moon with one's fingure is the apli; and to pass through walls, mountains etc. is termed the apralighata riddhi.
May those great saints help us, who are endowed with the Jangha-charana, the charan and the akasagamini riddhis.
(Note. To walk two inches above the ground by moving the legs is the Janghacharana riddhi ; to move in the air without hurting leaves, flowers etc. is the charan-riddhi; and to glide in the air in a sitting or standing posture without the aid of one's legs is the akasagamini riddhi.
May those great saints help us, who are endowed with the dipta-tapa, the tapta-lapa, the mahatapa, the ugra tapa, the ghoretapa, the ghora parakrama and the ghora brahmacharya riddhis!
(Note. These are the special powers developed under lapa (asceticism). In detail, the diptatapa is the power that increases the vigour and makes the body shine; the power that prevents the formation of faeces, excreta etc. from the food eaten, is the tapta tapa ; the endurance of death without flinching in the midst of a fast is the ugra-tapa; maintaining a fast even when unwell, also the staying in forests infested with wild beasts is the ghoratapa; persevering in asceticism in uninhabited awesome places though unwell is the ghora parakrama ; and the observance of a rule of celibacy that remains undefiled even in dreams is the ghora brahmacharya riddhi).
May those great saints help us who are endowed with the amarsosadhi, the sarvosadhi, the asibisa, the dristibisa, the khilausadhi.
(Note.-The riddhis enumerated here are all medicinal, that is curative : the amarosadhi signifies cure effected by the saint's Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat