English Pratikraman Introduction and Ritual together for English Speaking Jains

Author(s): Mayur and Rita Lodaya (Speaker)
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL
For example: When offering salutations; to utter the word "Namo" combined with the salutation posture and to deeply feel the thought of complete surrender to the teachings of Tirthankars with the "help" of the word and its meaning.
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Nirälambana Yoga (Pure Meditation):
To elevate the mental conscious condition of Älambana yoga to a point where even the external awareness of the word and its meaning merges with the consciousness, thereby no external reliance remains.
All these five Yogic forms of Kriyä Yoga and Jnäna Yoga together, are critical to the proper performance and execution of a religious ritual. These lead to the purification of the soul and manifest its unlimited powers.
To hurt or kill any living being amounts to hurting or killing one's self.
Compassion to others is compassion to one's own self. Therefore one should avoid violence like poison and thorns.
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Bhagavati Arädhanä, 797
There's no knowledge without right conviction, No conduct is possible without knowledge, Without conduct, there's no liberation, And without liberation, no deliverance.
Uttarädhyayan Sutra, Ch. 27, Verse 30
Only that science is a great and the best of all sciences, the study of which frees man from all kinds of miseries.
Mahavira (Isibhasiya, 7/1)
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