Int Jain Sangh NJ 2000 04 Mahavir Jayanti

Author(s): Int Jain Sangh NJ
Publisher: USA International Jain Sangh IJS

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MY ASPIRATIONS
(PANDIT JUGAL KISHORE MUKHTAR)
MERI BHAAVANA*
HE WHO CONQUERED LOVE AND HATRED, AND VANQUISHED SENSUAL TEMPTATION. TRUE COSMIC KNOWLEDGE WHO ATTAINED AND SHOWED THE PATH TO SALVATION.
MAY EGOTISM I NEVER FEEL; ANGRY, MAY NEVER I BECOME; ON SEEING OTHERS' WORLDLY WEALTH, TO ENVY MAY I NOT SUCCUMB.
SOME MAY CALL HIM BUDDHA, HARI, JIN, OR MAY CALL HIM BRAHMA, SUPREME; HIS THOUGHTS AND DEEP DEVOTION MAY BE IN MY HEART AND MIND AND DREAM.
MAY I ALWAYS FEEL AND PONDER TO ACT TRUE AND SINCERE WAY; I ALWAYS MAY DO GOOD TO ALL, AS FAR AS I CAN, EVERY DAY.
WHO DO NOT LONG FOR SENSUAL ZEST, WHOSE FEELINGS ARE GENTLE AND RIGHT; IN WELL-BEING OF WORLD AND SELF, WHO DO ENDEAVOR DAY AND NIGHT.
FOR LIVING BEINGS OF THE WORLD FEELING OF FRIENDSHIP MAY I SHOW; FOR WOEFUL CREATURES, FROM MY HEART, MAY STREAM OF KINDNESS EVERFLOW.
WHO DO PENACE OF SELFLESSNESS AND WHO HAVE NO REGRETS IN LIFE; TO LESSEN SUFFERING OF THIS WORLD; SUCH LEARNED SAGES DO STRIFE.
THE CRUEL, WICKED AND EVILDOERS, MY MOOD AND MIND MAY NOT RESENT; MAY THOUGHTS OF MINE BE SO MENDED, OF OTHERS I MAY BE TOLERANT.
MAY I ALWAYS LOOK UP TO THEM AND MAY I KEEP THEM IN MY MIND; PRACTICE THEIR CONDUCT IN MY LIFE, I WISH MY MIND BE SO INCLINED.
MY HEART MAY BE SO FULL OF LOVE, WHENEVER I SEE A NOBLE MAN; MY MIND MAY BE SO FULL OF JOY; I SERVE HIM AS MUCH AS I CAN.
MAY I NEVER INJURE A LIFE; OF LYING, MAY I NEVER THINK; NOT WANTING OTHERS' WEALTH AND SPOUSE, CONTENMENT NECTAR MAY I DRINK.
MAY I NEVER BE UNGRATEFUL; MALICE NEVER BE IN MY MIND; MAY I NOT SEE FAULTS OF PEOPLE; HIGH VIRTUES MAY I ALWAYS FIND.
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