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DEVA, SHASTRA AND GURU PUJA 185
Om Rhim. To eradicate the afflictions of embodied life, (birth, decay and death), I worship, with water, the word of the Sacred Law, which proceeds from the mouth of the Lord Jinendra, and which is composed in the Syadvada-naya style (or expression), and which comprises the twelve Angas, i.e., departments of Knowledge of Divine !
Accomplished!
Om Rhim, With the desire to destroy the misery of birth, old age and death, I worship with water, the Acharya (Head or leader of Saints). the Upadhyaya (the philosopher-saint) and all other Saints endowed with Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct as well as all other saintly virtue !
Accomplished!
With that superb kind of sandal paste that has attracted the bees by the excellence of its fragrance, I worship Lord Jinendra, the Word of the Sacred Law and the saints whose Teaching removes the miseries of all living beings, who are breathing hard under the multifarious worries of the world!
Om Rhim, To eradicate the affliction of embodied life, with sandal-wood paste I worship the Arhat Parameshti, who is endowed with the all-embracing infinite knowledge, who is devoid of the eighteen doshas (afflictions) birth, death and the rest, and who is possessed of six and forty Divine attributes ! Accomplished.
Om Rhim, To eradicate the affliction of embodied life, I worship with sandal-wood paste, the Word of the Sacred Law, which proceeds from the Mouth of the Lord Jinendra, and which is composed in the Syadvada naya style (of expression) and which comprises the twelve angas, i.e., departments of of Knowledge Divine.
Accomplished.
Om Rhim, With the desire to destroy the misery of birth, old-age and death, with sandal-wood paste I worship the Acharya, the Upadhyaya and all other Saints endowed with Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct and many other saintly virtues !
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
Accomplished.
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