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RELIGION & CULTURE OF THE JAINS
3. O'Lord ! may my mind be freed of all egoistic feelings, and be always equanimous between pain and pleasure, foes and friends, gains and losses, home and wilderness. 4. O'Lord of Saints ! may thy feet, which dispel the pitchy darkness (of ignorance)like a (brilliantly lit) lamp, ever stay in my heart, as if they were fixed, nailed, rooted, or permanently reflected therein.
5. O' Lord ! if I have, out of unmindfulness, happend to kill, destroy, cut asunder, crush, or otherwise hurt any living creature possessing one or more sense organs and moving about here and there, may such wrong deeds of mine be nullified.
6. If I have turned from the right path of liberation and taken an opposite road, and foolishly acted in contravention to the (rules of) right and pure conduct by indulging whole-heartedly in passional conditions and sensual enjoyments, such evil conduct of mine, O' Lord ! may be nullified. 7. I hereby liquidate all that sin, which is the cause of worldly misery and may have been committed by me in thought, word, or deed, or under the influence of passional conditions, by means of self-reproach, self-censure and repentance, just as a physician completely annihilates the effects of poison in the body of a patient) by a mysterious charm (mantra).
8. O' Conqueror of the Self ! I hereby undergo purificatory expurgation for all such deficiencies, deviations, transgressions, or perversions in the observance of right conduct, which I may have foolishly committed out of negligence or unmindfulness.
9. These faults and blemishes consist in the loss of intrinsic purity of the mind, non-observance of the rules of right conduct, indulgence in sensual enjoyments, and an inordinate attachment to such enjoyments.
