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affections, temptations, ambitions brings himself in such a position as absolutely under no impact of any desire, envy, anger etc. and is termed in jain tradition as vitaraga which is very root cause of omniscience or Absolute knowledge. This omniscient and master of passions, the Jin passess on advising and directing the people to the ultimate goal of their lives as his sole and religiously sanctioned ojective. The worship of the qualities which he has achieved by streneuous and regorous penance is the real worship of the Ishtadeva. The worship of or the devotedness to ishtadeva, according to Pujyapada, is not concentration only upon the individual but is solely an honour of or meditation upon his extraordinary qualities. The worship of the traits or qualities of the enlightened or the Siddhas, is the worship of our own self which never implies the acquisition of pleasure and worldly properties but the attainment of these traits alone to evolve ourselves to that stage. Therefore keeping this objective in mind, Acharya Pujyapada has offered a homage of devotion with a bowed head, At
