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In Search of the Ultimate
Let me serve the elderly and needy. Let me serve the Guru, the teacher, Let there be friendship with everyone. You do not want me to serve you, But let me be at your noble-feet. I wish for the removal of karma-particles, I wish for the removal of all obstaclesLife with true vision, And death in deep meditation. Bliss of all bliss, Cause of everybody's welfare, First among all religions, Jainism reigns the land.
22. SAT LAKH
(One has to beg for forgiveness from all living beings. There are 8.4 million different types of lives. Jain books tell us that there are different forms of life in earth, water, fire and air. Other lives are divided into categories as per number of senses. There are five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. Humans have all five senses. In the Indian system of digits, lakh or lac means one hundred thousand. There is no single word for one million it is merely ten lakh. One hundred lakh or ten million is called one crore).
Living beings in the universe, All mobile and immobile, Seven lakh earth bodies, Seven lakh water bodies, Seven lakh fire bodies, Seven lakh wind bodies, Ten lakh vegetation, singular types, Fourteen lakh vegetation, plural types, Two lakh with two senses,
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