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say, "Why do I still have worries?" Alas! No one recites the true Navkar Mantra! The persons you seek to address with your Navkar Mantra are not deserving of that message, and the letter you are sending is not really meant for them. If you mail a letter to the wrong address, it will be forwarded to the office of dead letters, and so your letter has been in vain and hence your worries still remain intact. You have to decide, 'may my Navkar reach the real sadhus, the real acharya and the real upadhyaya wherever they reside on this planet and in this universe.' Your Navkar needs to reach these three categories of people for sure. It automatically reaches the Siddhas and the Arihants.
Questioner : Do you mean that the Navkar reaches automatically?
Dadashri : Yes, it reaches automatically. Now when you say Namo Arihantanum, you know that there is no Arihant Lord on this planet of ours, so it reaches the Arihants wherever they are, and Namo Siddhanum reaches the Siddha Lords, but it reaches with the same intent with which you recite it.
You will have to understand all this. The meaning of the Jain religion is to understand everything and to sing about it, having understood everything. Narsinh Mehta was a poet who lived in a subdivision amongst other Nagar (Brahmin) people. Every morning he would get up early and sing devotional songs. People would make fun of him; they would mimic his singing as they brushed their teeth. One could hear the entire subdivision mimicking him. That is why Narsinh said:
In the same token, recite this Navkar Mantra after understanding it. Where does this Mantra reach? To whom does it reach? Understand that first and then send your mantra. Whom does the Lord call a sadhu? It is the one who has attained the Self and is proceeding on the path to become the Supreme Self. Such a one is a sadhu. Others are not real sadhus. They are wrong sadhus (kusadhus). Those who point out any paths, other than that of the vitarag Lords, have been called sectarians. What can you possibly get from these people? We just have to accept what Lord Mahavir told us as the truth. We should recite, 'Namo Vitragaya.
Understand this Navkar mantra and then recite it. This universe is very big and collectively there are twenty living Tirthankaras at the moment. If you recite the Navkar mantra after correctly understanding it, then even if you do not have the knowledge of the Self, you will reap the benefit of Om (); the benefit of paying obeisance to all Panch Parmeshtis, i.e. starting from those who have attained the Self to those who have attained moksha (final liberation). You will reap the benefit of Om (60) if you recite the mantra after understanding who the Panch Parmeshtis are and who the Tirthankaras are.
Exact understanding of Om (6) Questioner : Dada, what is Om (o)?
Dadashri : Om is to recite the Navkar mantra with a focused concentration (ekagrata). To recite the Navkar Mantra with the awareness of 'I am pure Soul' is Om kar bindu Sanyuktam.
Maru gayoon je gaashey tey ghana goda khaashey, ney
samjii ne gaashey, to vaikunth jaashey.' "Those who sing whatever I sing will take a beating
And those who sing having attained the understanding will go to Vaikunth - the heavenly abode of Lord Vishnu.'
Don't try to imitate me, because you will suffer if you do.
Om kar bindu sanyuktam, nityam dyayanti yoginah Kaamdum mokshadum chaiva, Omkar namo namah.' 'The constant meditation on the full Omkar Mantra by the yogi leads to worldly as well as spiritual prosperity. I bow to
the Omkara.
