Jainism by Vividus

Author(s): Ramnik V Shah
Publisher: Ramnik V Shah Canada

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2. Having attained great proficiency on
studying various sciences and revealed scriptures, the divine ultra-human chiefs have sung Your praise. I too, Oh Jinendra! shall sing Your praise by composing this melodious song which will capture the minds of all the three worlds.
3. Even without intelligence, the ignorant attempt worship at Your feet. I too. am presumptuous and feel inspired by my intelligence to sing Your praise. Who else but a child will aspire to capture the moon from its steady reflection made captive in water?
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Oh, Ocean of virtues! Oh, Lord of the moon! Is there anyone to compare in intelligence to sing Your praise with the Chief among teachers of the divine ultra-humans? Where, by tide-swells, even whales would roll in the ocean, who could swim the ocean by mere hands?
5. Oh, Lord of the saints! I though so feeble as the one described above shall still sing Your praise as I am full of devotion. Does not a female deer, unable to protect its young ones fight even a lion, not thinking about its own strength out of sheer intense devotion (affection)?
6. Learned scholars ridicule my attempt at singing Your praise, considering me ignorant, but the intensity of my devotion gives me that strength to challenge them. Do not cuckoos burst with songs in summer, only out of devotion (fondness) for the billion buds from which mangoes sprout on the mango trees?
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Oh Lord, just as by the rays of the sun, pitch darkness of night like that on the back of the bee spread over the universe is instantly destroyed, so are all sins accumulated over ages in past births instantly destroyed by sincerely repentent prayer offered at Your feet.
8. Keeping unwavering faith Oh, Lord! inspired by Your contact, I have started composing this song to please me just
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