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2015 JAINA Convention
Jainism World of Non-Violence
H.H DR.SWASTHI SHREE CHARUKEERTHI BHATTARAK
PANDITACHARYAVARYA MAHA SWAMIJI
(madas), Sharms (doshas), 6 Anavatanas, and 3 false faith moodathe 3 false be life) The Initiate: All right, I will do that. The preceptor: You must study shastras to your best, and unfailingly contemplate on the
SAMYAKTHVA VRATHOPADESHA
(HOUSEHOLDER VOWS IN SOUTH INDIA PRESENT PRACTICAL WAY)
Mangalaacharana Kailaso vrishabhasya nirvrithi mahee veerasya paavaapuree Champaa vaa vasupoojya sajjanapatheh sammodashailorhathaam sheshaaNaamapi chorjayantha shikhare nemeeshwarasvaarhatho
nirvaaNaavanayah prasiddha vibhavaah kurvanthu the mangalam (This Mangalacharana should be said before starting the Ashtavidhanarchana Puja)
How to draw Punja: Wash the stool. Draw Swastika with ring finger with sandal. Numbers should be drawn bowing to the respective gods.
Pancha gurooNaam vande (5) Chovissa JiNam cha savvada vande (24) chaaraNaacharam sadaa vande (4)
rayaNatthayamcha vande(3)
The Mode of Vrathopadesha / Initiation A sanctified white cloth or a cloth purified with turmeric should be spread on a low stool mane). Inscribe Swastika on the cloth and seat the initiate (Vatu) on the stool
The Initiate: All right. I will do that. The preceptor: To your best you must do worship of God (deva-pujal service to Guru Guru seve, sell-restraint and tapas. The Initiate: All right. I will do that. The preceptor: You must know the four kinds of charity namely offering food, offering shelter, offering medicine, and offeringshastra and give away according to the worth of the receptacle The Initiate: All right. I will do so. The preceptor. You must meditate on and recite Pancha Namaskara Mantra thrice a day in the morning, at noon, in the evening). Thrice best twice in the moming and evening) better. At the very least, recite it once a day, in the moming, 105 times to your ability The Initiate: All right. I will recite it. The preceptor. You must keep to the five Anu Vrathas namely non-violence (ahimsa). truthfulness sathya), not stealing acharya), celibacy brahmacharya) and non-possession (aparigraha) The Initiate: All right. I will keep to them The preceptor. You must know and practice the three Guna Vrathas namely Dig Vratha, Desha Vratha and Anarthadanda Vratha, and also the four Shiksha Vrathas namely Saamaayika Prashadhopavasa, Bhopapabaga Parimana and Vaiyavritha The Initiate: All right. I will know and practice them. The preceptor: Ashtamoola Gunas, namely honey (madhu), liquor (madya), flesh (mamsa) and the fruits of ficus (atthil, peepul (aala, basari, soli, and arali should be renounced. Any fruit likely to contain worms should be renounced. The initiate: All right. I will renounce them. The preceptor: Onion, garlic, and all other eating Toots should be renounced. Vegetables like snake gourd. claichi, and gourd should be renounced. Eating left-overs should be avoided. Supping at night should also be renounced. Eating at night in the name of upahara is prohibited.) The Initiate: All right. I will renounce them The preceptor. Water should always be used after filtering The initiate: All right. I will do so. The preceptor. The seven evils namely dice, flesh-eating, boozing, adultery, fornication, hunting and thieving should be renunced The initiate: All right. I will renounce them. The preceptor: You should have no greed on pressions like fields, house, money and grains, The initiate: All right. I will have no greed on them The preceptor. Dairy products like milk, butter and curd should not be consumed prior to Fifteen days after the cow or she buffalo calves or, in the case of goat, the lambs fall
Set the Initiate's cupped palms over the Mangala Kalasha, inner palms up. Spread rice on those cupped palms. Scribe the seed letters Om, Aim, Sreem, Kleem, Arham an the spread rice Encircle the seed letters with Hreem. Then scribe the mantra "Om Samyak Darshana Inanacharitraya Swaha". Put a coconut and fruits applied with the turmeric on the Mangala Kalasha set on the rice with scripting and then offer Vrathapadesha to the Vatu Vrathopadesha should be offered after making the Vatu pancha-namaskara mantras thrice. The mode of offering Vrathopadesha is like this:
The preceptor, who offers Vrathopadesha:You must now receive the Vrathopadesha we sive. The Initiate. All right, I will receive it. The preceptor: You must to your best follow the path of salvation designated as Samyagdarshana nanachaartra, otherwise called Ratna Traya, taught by the unattached all-koncwing and well-wishing Tirthankara Paramadevas, and flowing down from the Digambar Jain Acharyass through the ages The Initiate. All right, I will do that. The preceptor: You must identify the 25 evils (mala-doshas) which include rivalries
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