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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
JANUARY 2015
as it flows.
turn grey, cultures decay, we have ourselves and within It is 2015 - and I am still the same - as Salvador us everything in its purest form that no satyug, kalyug, Dali said-'Everything alters me. Nothing changes me pancham kaal can touch- I still get affected, bruised, am idiotically emotional Let us all in this new year accept all that we find but there is a stronger taveez (protective halo) around difficult to accept - the new generation, technology, it, now I am able to laugh at everything as if it were this loved ones dying, gujarati language loosing its huge circus or a play and I a mere observer, an popularity, fast food, nuclear families, materialism - occasional character in it. There is now a distance, the Let us do our bit though-all that we can to be pure gulp still comes, gives me that sharp pain and leaves - while accept the "anitya" the impermanent - the ever but it leaves without draining me. It has made me love changing, the ever dying and the ever existing world much better, as now it is love for love's sake no other as it is. milavat, has made me light and strong.
Eternity is here to stay Death is and always will be a final eventuality, an
It is You & I who will fade away.. unconquerable fact but it has also became immaterial
Reshma Jain because we are neither 'Utpati', nor 'vyay', only 'Dhruv' which no death can touch. Let the mountains perish,
The Narrators buildings crumble, relationships fade, skin crease, hair
Tel: +91 9920951074.. LESSON-3: NAVKAR MANTRA ENLIGHTEN YOURSELF BY SELF STUDY OF JAINOLOGY
DR. KAMINI GOGRI In the following article we will study about the third Amongst all that is auspicious, topic, Navkar Mantra.
Padhamam Havei Mangalam : The Mantra : The Mantras are the combination of This Navkar Mantra is the foremost. sacred syllables which help in concentration of mind The Navkar Mantra is the most important mantra in and purify the thoughts, speech and conduct of a per- Jainism and can be recited at any time. While reciting son. The word Mantra is derived from the root man' the Navkar Mantra, we are bowing down with respect which means to think/mind and from the root tra' mean to Arihants (souls who have reached the state of noning protection. Thus it is an instrument to protect mind
attachment towards worldly process), Siddhas (liberor the thought of a person.
ated souls), Acharyas (heads of sadhus and sadhvis), NAVKAR MANTRA
Upadhyayas (those who teach scriptures to sadhus and Namo Arihantanam:
sadhvis), Sadhus (monks, who have voluntarily given I bow down to Arihanta,
up social, economical and family relationships). ColNamo Siddhanam:
lectively, they are called Panch Parmeshthi (five suI bow down to Siddha,
preme spiritual people). In this mantra we worship their Namo Ayariyanam:
virtues rather than worshipping any one particular perI bow down to Acharya,
son; therefore, this Mantra is not named after Lord Namo Uvajjhayanam:
Mahavir, Lord Parshvanath or Adinath, etc. When we I bow down to Upadhyaya,
recite Navkar Mantra, it also reminds us that, we need Namo Loe Savva-sahunam:
to be like them. This mantra is also called Namaskar or I bow down to Sadhu and Sadhvi.
Namokar Mantra because we are bowing down. Eso Panch Namokaro:
The Navkar Mantra contains the main message of These five bowing downs,
Jainism. The message is very clear. If we want to be Savva-pavappanasano: Destroy all the sins, liberated from this world then we have to take the first Manglananch Savvesim:
step of renunciation by becoming a monk or a nun.
