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PRABUDDHA JIVAN
MAY 2013
સ્તવન – STAVANI 244, 24, 3415121, 494 4901 744617189 Surya Chandra Akash Pavan ne Varsha jem badhana chhe મહાવીર કેવળ જૈનોના નહીં પણ આખી દુનિયાના છે. Mahavir keval Jainona nahin pan sari duniyana chhe. જન્મ ભલેને અહીં લીધો પણ જ્યોત બધે ફેલાવી Janma bhalene ahin lidho pan jyot badhe felavi chhe, સૂર્ય ભલેને અહીં ઉગ્યો પણ પ્રકાશ છે જગવ્યાપી Surya bhalane ahin ugyo pan prakash chhe jugvyapi, પ્રાણી માત્રના પ્યારા એ પયગંબર માનવતાના છે. Prani matrana pyara a paygamber manavtana chhe. Held...
Mahavir keval... સત્ય અહિંસા પ્રેમ કરૂણા ભાવ છે મંગળકારી
Satya Ahimsa Prem Karuna bhav chhe mangalkari, અનેકાંતની વિચારધારા સર્વ સમન્વયકારી
Anekantni vichardhara sarva samanvaykari, પતિતને પાવન કરનારા પાણી જેમ ગંગાના છે
Patitne pavan karnara pani jem Gangana chhe. Helde....
-Mahavir keval... વિરાટ એવા વિશ્વ પુરુષને વામન અમે કર્યા છે
Virat eva vishva purushne vaman ame karya chhe, વિશાળ એવા વિશ્વ ધર્મને વાડા માંહી પૂર્યો છે
Vishal eva vishwa dharmne vada mahi puryo chhe, જીવનના જ્યોતિર્ધર એ તો જગના જ્ઞાન ખજાના છે. Jivanna jyotirdharne eto jagna gyan khajana chhe. Held2....
-Mahavir keval...
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EXPLANATION :
we are looking at Mahavir. To-day we are considering Just as sun, moon, sky, wind and rain belong to ev- him only as a God of the Jains, we have degraded him erybody on the earth, wheather rich or poor, good or and we are trying to devide the Jains in different sects. bad, Mahavir is also equally prayed by everybody be- e.g. Shwetamber, Digamber, Sthanakwasi, Dasha. cause he belongs to every humanbeing; he is not only
Visa, etc. Actually the Jain religion is a religion for the a God of the Jain community, he had compassion for whole world. He is the torch bearer, a forerunner of life everbody. Every body means when he had given the and is the treasure of the knowledge. first lessons, even birds, animals and gods came to
OPUSHPA PARIKH listen him. This scene is very beauitfully shown inthe
RELIGION / PRAYER samavosaran at Ajmer Temple constructed by Shri Bhagchandji Soni.
• Ritual is the way we carry the presence of the sa
cred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. Further in the first stanza the poet has compared
Christina Baldwin him with the sun. Though he was been born in India he
. Worship is the highest act of which man is capable. has spread the knowledge even out of India. Just as
It not only stretches him beyond all the limits of his the sun spreads its light all over the world.
finite self to affirm the divine depth of mystery and He is a prophet spreading humanity and is loved by holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens each and everybody.
him at the deepest level of his being to an act which In the second stanza there is a description of the
unites him most realistically with his fellow man. good qualities. Truth, non-violence, love and mercy are
Samuel H. Miller considered as beneficiery and worth putting in prac
. Religion is a flower and not thorn. Develop love for tice. Anekant - i.e. thinking of some problem or some
all. idea from all the angles. It helps us to keep good rela
• The most powerful channel of communication - tion with everybody. Just as the Ganges' water purifies
Prayer everbody Mahavir also changes your nature and treats
. Prayer is the mightiest and the most unused power
in the world. everybody equally.
John Bunyan In the third and last stanza the poet describes how
