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ent order of things on earth, as it is in heaven;
(iii) a request for just one's daily bread, i. e., an implied disclaimer of the wealth and pomp that might be possessed by the devotee ; (iv) repentance for sins; and
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(v) a sense of horror for future failings, coupled with a desire for deliverance from evil.
Such is the analysis of the Lord's Prayer as taught by Jesus to his disciples. This is, however, nothing but simply another version of the Jaina samayika (daily meditation) which was taught by Paramatman Mahavira to his disciples just a little over six hundred years before Jesus. Here are the component parts of the sâmâyika, as described in Jaina Books :
(i) repentance for past faults,
(ii) resolving to refrain from sinning in the future,
(iii) renunciation of personal likes and dislikes, (iv) praise of the divine attributes of the Holy Tirthamkaras, who are models of perfection for us to copy,
(v) adoration of any particular Tirthankara, whose biography is to be taken as furnishing inspiration for our own soul, the Perfect One having risen to the supreme status of Divinity from the ordinary position of a sinful soul, and
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