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

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DEVA, SHASTRA AND GURU PUJA
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flowers the Acharya, the Upadhyaya and all the Saints who are endowed with Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct as well as with all other saintly qualities.
With the best of naivedyam (foods) I worship the Lord Jinendra, the Word of the Sacred Law and the Saints who are able, like the (bird) garuda, to destroy the proud and the terrible serpent of Kama (sexual urge) !
Om Rhim. To destroy the affliction of hunger I worship, with naivedyam (eatables), the Arhat Parameshtin, endowed with the all-embracing infinite knowledge, devoid of the eighteen afflictions and possessed of the six and forty divine attributes!
Accomplished.
Om Rhim, To destroy the affliction of hunger I worship with naivedyam, the Word of the Sacred Law which proceeds from the mouth of the Lord Jinendra, which is composed in the syadvada-naya style and which comprises the twelve angas, i.e., departments of knowledge Divine !
Accomplished.
Om Rhim! To destroy the affliction of hunger, I worship, with naivedyam, the Acharya, the Upadhyaya and all the Saints who are endowed with Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct as well as with all other saintly qualities !
With brightly burning golden lamps do I worship the Lord Jinendra, the Word of the Sacred Law and the Saints who are able to destroy, as light destroys darkness, the deluding darkness of Mohaniya karma that has deceived the whole world and cancelled the beneficial function (of self-knowing) of the soul.
Om Rhim! To destroy the deluding darkness of the Mohaniya Karma, with light, I worship the Arhat Parameshtin, endowed with the all-embracing infinite knowledge, devoid of the eighteen dos has afflictions) and possessed of the six and forty divine attributes !
Accomplished.
Om Rhim! To destroy the deluding darkness of the mohaniya karma with light, I worship the Word of the Sacred Law, which proceeds from the mouth of the Lord Jinendra, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat