Jainism Abroad

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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"MAHAVIRATHE MAGNIFICIENT MASTER - TEACHER OF THE WORLD"
BY PROF. PRATAPKUMAR TOLIYA M.A. (HINDI); M.A. (ENGLISH), Sahitya Ratna Director, VARDHAMAN BHARATI, BANGALORE.
"MANGALAM BHAGAWAN VIRO, MANGALAM GAUTAM PRABHUHU, MANGALAM STHOOLIBHADRADYAHA, JAIN DHARMOSTU MANGALAM." "MANGALAM BHAGAWAN VIRO, MANGALAM GAUTAMO GANIHI, MANGALAM KUNDAKUNDADHYAHA, JAIN DHARMOSTU MANGALAM."
"AUM NAMO ARIHANTANAM, NAMO SIDDHANAM, NAMO AYARIYANAM, NAMO UVAJJHAYANAM, NAMO LOE SAVVA SAHUNAM. ESO PANCHA NAMUKKARO, SAVVA PAVAPPANASANO, MANGALA NAM CHA SAVVESIM, PADHAMAM HAVAI MANGALAM."
There comes this constantly sounding incantation like a flow from time immemorial, from the beginning less time, from the source - less past - "AUM NAMO ARIHANTANAM . NAMO SIDDHANAM NAMO AYARIYANAM NAMO UVAJJHAYANAM NAMO LOE SAVVA SAHUNAM........!"
(Prostrations to the ARHATAS, Prostrations to the SIDDHAS, Prostrations to the ACHARYAS, Prostrations to the UPADHYAYAS and Prostrations to all the sages of the universe)
This is the NAMASKAR MAHAMANTRA - NAVAKAR MAHAMANTRA - The greatest incantation of all times, an incantation which expresses the deepest respects to the supreme "virtues","attributes", "qualities", and not to any person. This "soul-centered", universal-welfare-providing incantation has such a tremendous potentialities within itself, that it transforms its incantor-seeker and uplifts him unto that sublimed supreme state of "ARIHANTA" and "SIDDHA".
The contemplation, Meditation and day-to-day life - application of this Mahamantra, followed by the "RATNATRAYA SADHANA" of "JNANA, DARSHANA, CHARITRA" was rigorously undertaken by the great great - soul - no. not in one or two "births", but in gradually-consciousness-acquiring 27 TWENTY SEVEN chief births!
In the sublimed last birth of this supreme soul, after his heart - searching long long silent "SADHANA" of twelve and a half years, there has immerged, out of his self-realization, time-space inageressing universal-vision and deepest SILENCE WITHIN, the sweet musical...... the awakening immortal words........the universal-welfare-providing, wonderful and auspicious speech............!
..................THAT AWAKENED SPEECH:
----------Today again comes that sweet ringing 'voice'-breaking the doors of the DIRECTIONS, crossing the barriers of MATTER and SPACE and cutting across the span of TIME ----
(SAMAYAM GOYAM! MA PAMAYE:)
"Waste not a moment, Be not 'out-of-your-self' and unaware for a single moment, O Gautama!" . ---------Today resounds those wakeful 'words' from the sacred soil of Vaishali & Kshatriyakundagram, from the