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is recited two times of day by them. Moreover when Varshāyoga stay in (four months or rainy season at one place) is established by saints, they as a rule, recite seven euologiesIryā-path Bhakti, Siddha-Bhakti, Achārya-Bhakti, ShrutaBhakti, Shāņti-Bhakti, Chaitya-Bhakti, Pancha-MahāguruBhakti. Naņdiswara-Bhakti is recited on Ashtānhikā-Parvas which is celebrated continuously for eight days of Parva. Hence these ten eulogies have got their own importance. The nature and contents of euologies in Jain religion is much different from that of eulogies in other religions. It is so because the concept of God in Jainology is different from that in other religions.
...According to Achārya Pujyapāda-Devotion (bhakti) is attachment with-Arhat (embodied pure souls), Āchārya (head of the order of saints), Upadhyāyaa (preceptor) and other highly learned saints and the utterances of Jinas (victors) with pure thought-actions. According to another definition, "Devotion is attachment with the virtues or merits of God." Devotion should be absolutely pure/untainted; it should have no concern with any impurity or impurities e.g. the fulfillment of any desire or achievement of some objective or target or satisfaction of some want. Achārya Kundkunda in "Bhāva Pāhud" says, "Persons who bow down and pay obeisence to the lotus-feet of shri Jineņdra deva with extreme devotion-succeed in outrooting the creeper of mundane existence."
Be it remembered that the Jina (the victor) is fully nonattached/dispassionate and remains totally unconcerned with the tendency of being worshipped or eulogized by his devotees- what soever and who soever they be. He does no good to his devotees; nor does he inflict any injury or punishment upon his opponents. He is over and above all that. It is not Jina- who helps his devotees; It is rather the purity of the thoughts and attitudes of the devotees which result from the recollection or reflection of and contemplation upon Jina that make his devotees, competent
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