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Atonement
O Lord, I have forsaken too much. I did not heed to your invaluable words; I did not ponder over the unparalleled truth presented by you; I did not practice the supreme code of conduct propounded by you, I did not correctly comprehend the concepts of compassion, tranquility, forgiveness and purity as explained by you.
O Lord, I am lost, I wandered, roamed and have been entangled in endless worldly life. I am sinner, highly infatuated and smeared with the particles of Karma.
O Lord, I cannot reach salvation without (adopting) the truth laid by you. I am incessantly indulging in sensuous pleasure, am blinded by ignorance, do not have discernment and I am senseless, shelterless and helpless. Detached Lord, I am now surrendering myself to you, to your precepts and to your saints. I earnestly desire to get rid of all my faults and to be absolved of all the sins. I am repenting for the sins committed earlier. As I ponder minutely and deeply, I get the glimpse of my true self in light of your manifest form.
You are unattached; absolute; embodiment of everlasting existence, consciousness and happiness; innately blissful; infinitely enlightened; infinitely percipient and illuminator of the universe. For my own benefit, I beg for atonement in your presence. Let me not have, even for a moment, any doubt about the truth presented by you; let my sole aspiration and tendency be to stay day and night in the path shown by you.
О' Omniscient Lord, what else can I state? Nothing is unknown to you. With utter remorse, I pray for atonement of the sins resulting from Karma.
Aum; bliss, bliss and bliss be unto all.
Comment: Source:
IS Shrimad Rajchandra (1868-1901), a great Jain seer* * 'seer' means a prophet or a person with the supposed power to foretell events or a person's destiny.
Book of Jain Prayers
