Namokar Mahamantra Ek Anushilan

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla
Publisher: Todarmal Granthamala Jaipur

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GREAT HYMN OF OBEISANCE: A CONTEMPLATION
APPEAL FOR UNITY
While giving the letter wife said, "From father."
After reading the letter, the husband asked, "What do you want from me in the context of this letter? What can I do for your father?"
Wife said, "If we so desire, the death of father can be peaceful." "How?" "By living with love for seven days." "Proposal is not bad, but where do we have love amongst us?" "It is not the talk of having love, it is of acting as if living in love." "But ....
"But what? Cannot we make this much sacrifice for the sake of father?"
"Why not?
After having decided thus, on the appointed day both of them reached Station to fetch father. They brought him affectionately and they lived for seven days as if there was strong affection between them, as if they were ideal couple.
After seven days when they went to the Station to see father off, they started going to their respective houses after seeing him off, husband said to his wife, "Listen, think a bit, if we can perform the acting of living together affectionately continuously for seven days for the happiness of others then why we can not perform this acting of living together affectionately for the entire life for our own happiness?"
Wife said, "Why not? We certainly can."
In this manner, husband and wife started living affectionately together. For sometime it was the acting of living with love and after few days natural love emerged.
Similarly, when for the unity of the entire Jain community we can interact friendly with our Swetamber brothers, can work together jointly, can organise all sorts of programmes together, then why not for the sake of the unity of Digamber community we cannot interact friendly, why not we work together jointly? Also why cannot we organise all sorts of programmes? The differences that we have between the beliefs of
Swetambers and ourselves, we do not have that much difference between us, is not it?
If we start interacting together, even reluctantly, natural affection would emerge later on. Useless suspicions are originated due to unnecessary distances. The only way to remove the distance is to come closer in the normal course.
The types of programmes you are organising in this Panch Kalyanak installations and are having Digamber statues installed, I do not want to make any comments thereupon, I have no objection either, but I certainly would like to ask, whether the statues installed by us in India are not even like these that you oppose so much? My request to you is that for the propagation of Digamber religion and for the happiness, peace and unity of Digamber community, please do contemplate seriously once on all these aspects.
Our this entire conversation took place in most cordial atmosphere. Sethiji also said, "We also want the same thing, but we have our own anxieties, the removal of which we seek from you."
I said, "Please do ask, whatever you want to ask?"
He said, "For one thing please tell me, whether you desire to set up a new sect?"
I told, "Not at all, we don't want to run any new sect. You are the only one who tell us "Kanji Panth', we have never called ourselves Kanji Panth'.
He said, "Is this true?" I said, "Is there any doubt in this?" He further said, "You are telling now, don't change later on."
I said, "What are you mentioning? We are not amongst those who change after committing; so far, we never had any dealings with you therefore you are telling like this."
He said, "I am unable to believe, therefore I am telling like this. If you say so, I may get this published."
I said, "Certainly, do get this published. What about you, I myself would write this. Then, you will not have any doubts."
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