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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
strength from your soul. You are great. You do not touch with your hands weapons or women or wealth."
Familiarity with the enlightened leads to the destruction of one's karmas. After he became Haribhadra Soori, that is, an acharya, he composed 1444 orginal granthas. What a tremendous scholarship ; Dharma Bindu was composed by him. In the Pratikraman, he is remembered. and his shloka is recited. We say, "The samsar is like a fire. We would like to discard it. We remember your sacred name because it can extinguish, the fire of samsar." At the end, we say ANYATHA SHARANAM NASTHI. THVAMEVA SHARNAM MAMA. (I have no other refuge; only you are my refuge)
Haribhadra Soori did not forget the benefaction of that great Sadhvi. He adopted her as his spiritual mother. His works are prescribed as textbooks in some western universities as well as in Indian universities. He ended his earthly existence in 581 Vikrama Era. There is some difference of opinion regarding his date and time.
THE DEDICATION :
He committed a mistake once but he repented it throughout his life. The Sadhvi who helped him to discard his pride was Yakini Mahattara. By way of expressing his gratitude for the benefaction she had bestowed upon him, he mentioned at the end of every work of his, "This work has been composed by the spiritual son of Yakini Mahattara". Thus he became humble. In the beginning of every grantha written by him, he offers a humble prayer to the Supreme One, the Arihant.
ARIHANT :
When we say Namo Arihantanam, this expression Namo is a way to enter the soul. To whom, do we offer a salutation in reciting this line? Who is Arihant? All such beings of the past, or the future or the presentare saluted in it. Here, there is no narrowness of outlook.
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