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THE JAINA GAZETTE
May those great saints help us, who have attained to the transcendence of the five senses as the means of knowledge (that is to say who can see hear, touch, taste and smell things from a much greater distance than is possible with the normal senses.)
May those great saints help us, who are endowed with the pragna-sraman, the pratyeka-buddhi and the pravada riddhis; who know the ten purvas and the fourteen purvakara, and who posses, sed the knowledge known as the Nimilta jnana!
(Note.- The projna-sraman riddhi is the power to know extremely subtle matters, which none but the knower of the whole of the Teaching of the Omniscient One can know. The pratyeka-buddhi is the ability to understand the nature of the Truth without instruction from anyone. The daspurvi is the attainment of the extraordinary powers (vidyas) such as the Maharohini. The knowledge of the scriptural lore is the shaturdasapurvi riddhi. The faculty of conquering another in a disputation is the Vada-riddhi. The Nimilla-jnana is of eight kinds.
May those great saints protect us, who are endowed with the anima, the mahima, the laghima and the garima riddhis, and who possess the extraordinary powers of the mind, speech and the body!
(Note.-The anima is the power to make one's body small as an atom; the mahima is the reverse of this, when the body can become very very big, as a huge mountain; the laghima is the power to make the body very very light and the garima enables one to make the body abnormally heavy. The suprcme type of the manobala is in operation, when one can in less than 48 minutes mentally go through the entirety of the field of knowledge described in all the 12 Angas. The corresponding power of extraordinary speech implies the power to recite the entirety of the aforesaid knowledge in the same period of time. The extraordinary type of bodily strength is displayed, when one can go without food and water for as much as six months or a year without losing the glow and vigour of the body.) Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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