Book Title: Jainism by Vividus
Author(s): Ramnik V Shah
Publisher: Ramnik V Shah Canada

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________________ of copper; who is omniscient though without mind and five sense-organs and who is eternal, forever inhabit my heart II 17. May that God of gods who is omnipresent from the point of view of His own knowledge. who is liberated who is ominscient, who has annihilated all karma, and who is meditated upon as destroyer of evil thoughts by all embodied souls aspiring emancipation, forever inhabit my heart ! ! 18. I surrender myself wholeheartedly to that cherished God who cannot be ever touched by impure and dirty karmic matter, just as rays of the sun cannot be touched by darkness and who is from substance point of view, one and eternal while from qualities point of view, both transcient and plural, 19. I surrender myself wholeheartedly to that cherished God, in whom, despite absence of a physical sun, there is the ever-illuminating sun of knowledge and who from substance point of view is for eternity, steady and immovable in his own soul. 20. I surrender myself wholeheartedly to that cherished God, who is purity and beneficence incarnate, who is peace itself. who has no beginning and no end and in the knowledge about whom all objects in the world clearly appear different and separate. 21. I surrender myself wholeheartedly to that cherished God, who has burnt to ashes all desires, pride, forgetfulness, dejecti on, sleep, fears. sorrows, and worries, just as fire burns to ashes all woods of trees. 22. Those saints who have not believed in the ceremonial acceptance of a cube of stone, a square of mat, a piece of earth or a ready-made seat of wood for their seat to observe "samayika" (state of equality consciousness) have always 101

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