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NITYA CHINTANA KANIKAO
(GOLDEN WORDS WORTH PONDERING DAILY) Ek samkit paye bina, jaapa-taapa kiya fok
Without attaining Samygdarshana, chantingpenance is fruitless.
Jaisa murda singarna, samaj kahe tilok
It is like decorating cadaver which is a universal truth.
It means without Samyagdarshana any religious rituals, penance, chanting of mantras, shravakpanu (a person observing partial vows), kshullakpanu (a person observing something less than the vows of the ascetic), sainthood asceticism is futile like decorating (beautifying) a dead-body. The significance of the statement is that they are not effective for the end of the vicious cycle of transmigration. It does not mean that one should not practice all these rites and rituals, but one should not get satisfied merely by practicing them, one should not feel gratified by merely doing that. Rather all the perseverance should be one and only for the attainment of the nishchaya Samyagdarshana.
How to do the darshana (obeisance/worship) of Lord? Contemplate virtues of the Lord and
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