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benefactor to all, you benefit this animate and inanimate world as you wander daily, like the sun. You have wandered for a long time for the pleasure of both Āryas and non-Aryas. Your course, like that of the wind, is for the benefit of others. You wandered here to benefit others for a long time. For whose benefit have you gone to mokşa, o Supreme Lord? Since the abode of the siddhas, the top of the universe, has been occupied by you to-day, this mortal world abandoned by you this same day is a world suitable for death. Even to-day you are present in person to the bhavyas who recall your teaching bestowing favor on all. Whoever direct meditation, concentrated on your form,409 toward you, to those great souls you are present in person, O Lord. Even though you are free from affection, do not abandon my mind, as you have abandoned all samsāra, o Supreme Lord.''
After this hymn of praise to Ādinātha, he bowed to each one of the other Jinendras and praised each one in a śloka.
“Hail, O Ajita, Lord of the World, unconquered by passions and sense-objects, jewel of Vijayā's womb, son of King Jitasatru.” ,
"Homage to you, O Sambhava, son of Jitāri, springing from Sri Senā's womb, sun for crossing the sky of exist
ence."
“Sun of the east quarter Siddhārthā, ornament of the family Samvara, delight of all, Lord Abhinandana, purify us."
409 652. Rūpastha. This is one of 4 kinds of dhyāna treated from a different point of view than the dhyāna described in n. 8.
1. Piņdastha, meditation on the elements. 2. Padastha,
, pure syllables. 3 Rūpastha, , , the form of the Tirthankaras. 4. Rūpavārjita, meditation on the soul as pure spirit without
form. Yog. 7. I to 10. 6. G. pp. 369 ff.
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