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are also inviting the atithi reverently.
Atithi, the abode of fearlessness, comes and stops in the courtyard, unperturbed, steady... then, what to say! Taking himself highly fortunate, uttering 'blessed', 'blessed', taking the atithi on the right side at a distance of two-three hands, the seth starts going round him with his wife, with his family!
This scene of today appears, as if,
the sun and the moon with planets and stars are going round the Meru mountain. Three rounds are taken observing kindness to jivas. Again with obeisance starts the nine-typed devotion: ‘Mind is pure, speech is pure, body is pure and food and drinks are pure, come Svamin! Enter the dining room.' And without showing him their backs
324 :: Silent Soil
