JAINISM--KARNA AND MAHASATI SITAJI- MY CHILDHOOD HEROES-----!!!

Friend 21 days lockout in India is really a testing time. In normal case. we are happy to have a single unexpected holiday. I thought to
utilize it for my favorite hobby of reading. In my home library, I can
get Jain Ramayana and Mahabharata. I picked them and read topics
of my interest. It all made me nostalgic for my childhood. When all
my friends and  elders were fans of Arjun and Ramchandraji, I was
impressed by Karan and Sita from these epics. Here with I share it.

Ramayana was in the era of our 20th Thirthankar Puj.Munisuvratji
and Mahabharat belongs to 21st Thirthankar Pujya Neminathji. The
both Karna and Sita will get salvation. As given in future Chovishi
Karna will be next 20th Thirthankar with name Shri Vijayji. Krishna
will be 12th one named Amaan.,Ramchandraji and 5 Pandavas got
salvation in same life. Sitaji, Dropadiji, Laxman and Ravan will get
salvation in near future. Ravan will be liberated as "Thirthankar".

As a rule most of people admire only winners. Looser are  never be
meant for motivation and inspirations .Karna fought with his own
destiny with full of his capacity and vigor. Loyalty towards friend
Duryodhana and inclination of charity at any cost were his best of
features. He was aware of all wrongs and negatives of Duryodhan.
Karna has never forgot obligation of Duryodhaan when- he alone
stood by him when all gathered to insult him. Duryodhan made him
King of Angaadesh to bring Karna at par with all kings. In real term
Karna was real son of king of kings nothing less than great  The Sun.

Destiny played all types of havoc with Karna. His real mother Kunti
and Guru Parshuram abandoned Karna without his fault. Indra God
arranged that he shall be deprived of shelter coats gifted by Sun.
Even knowing that it may cost him his life, Karna gifted them to the
Indra in disguise of Bramana. One self made principle Karna did not 
want to break that no one shall return empty handed from his doors.
Before the final exit. he favored his real mother by promising not
to touch any one Panadava except Arjun. This is when Karna knew
that his real mother never dared to call him her son. At last when he
saw wheels of chariot drowning inside the land and death seemed

to be inevitable the  warrior did not asked for mercy of Arjuna, He
asked him fair war ethics which Krishna never granted. Soon after
it, The Great fighter breathed his last. History cannot ignore him. He failed to get justice everywhere Dronachharya refused teaching him. Circumstances could not cloud his real personality and glory.

I remember his last wish expressed to Lord Krishna. It is as given
in my favorite book read in childhood called "Mrutununjay" by late
author Mr. Shivaji Sawant. Karna requested Shrikrishna to throw
his ashes and residual of body in a most infertile land. The reason
he told Shrikrishna that he never want another unfortunate man like
him to take birth in this world. I do not remember, how much time, I
cried while reading this book. Now book is available in English also.

Whenever I see people engaged in struggle and never gave up in life I remember the great warrior Karna. Hat's of to this warrior who has fought all offerings of destiny without compromising his principles.

In this new world where backstabbing is common the loyalty of this great warrior is unique and beyond words. An  emotional attachment with Duryodhana in a dark moment of life made him true friend of Duryodhan. Fear of loosing life, request by the great lord Shrikrishna nothing can detach his ties with his friend's obligation forever life.

When the warrior died on battlefield nobody has ever imagined his defeat or death .Destiny was not fair to him and cheating was never  been his business. The "Maharathi " conquered death while taking his last breath. Whenever human race will search for great souls in human history they will come across Karna's name in golden letters  

My second favorite is Sita Mahasati. In all odds and misfortunes, she
never compromised her dignity. She is called daughter of soil as her
real mother may have gave her up. With lot of dreams she became
queen of Ayodhya and wife of Prabhu Ramchandraji. She forced to
leave palace. To be with husband she left kingdom on the way to
forest. She never compromised with her duties as wife and never
consented to marry with Ravan to end up her prison in Lanka. She
always treated all others as brothers except Ramji out of her love.

 On her return to Ayodhya after  gap of 14 plus years Seeta's destiny
was still not showing any positive signs. She has to face exile in
forest as people were doubted on her Chasity and holiness. She most
daringly offered single parenting to lovely twins Laav and Kush. At
last to prove her purity she dared to enter in a burning fire. What a
great inner confidence and self respect, I  bow down to her whenever
I go through her sufferings which she faced in a most coolness and
calmly manner without making noise and complaints. Being a wife
of most popular King known for justice, she could not enjoy to get
real justice for herself, She watched and suffered silently within self.

Hope both of my heroes of past will  stood as role model for all of us as a noble case to fight Karmas without loosing coolness.

JAI JINENDRA-----------!!!---------JAI MAHAVEER-----------!!!.

JAINISM-- LET US RESET OUR LIFE'S PRIORITIES--------------!!!.

Friends the Covid-19 disaster gave the whole world, it's leaders and all of us to review our priorities for life. The pandemic has given us

ample time to sit at home in self and state sponsored lock down. All

                       " जहाँ हो •• जैसे हो ••वहाँ •• वैसे ही खुश रहना आप••

                         आपसे मिलना ज़रूरी नहीं ••

                        'आपका होना ज़रूरी है'----Be Safe-------------!!! "

are following the social distancing as human is said to be the agent
for spreading the disease. In spare time the various news. twits and
comments on social media made me to think our priorities. Same, I am sharing with my blog readers. Hopefully it may motivate them
to think about it and bring the changes in living precious life.

The disaster acted as eye opener to the limitations of mankind. We
may have nuclear weapons, advance war technology and reserves of currency, oil ,gold and other natural resources not a single part of it
can act as a savior .Human race was caught unaware to fight it. One
of reason of such tragedy is our wrong priorities. As a blind race  to copy each other in war materials, we neglected public healthcare .A
small virus has power to shake total human race. Bhagwan Lord Mahaveer hence advocated non violence for all living souls from
soul having one to maximum five organs. We specially youngsters
must keep away from preachers advocating wrong food involving
any living soul including eggs. This is warning of present pandemic
We as a human are not the owners of this beautiful earth. We are
only co- passengers with all animals, birds ,and plants. From ant to
bat, snake ,goat, fish, hen all are our friends. Live and let live.

 Hospitals. medical staff, scientific research, educational institutes all
were kept as secondary objects. Let the sacrifice of departed souls
act as eye openers for our various rulers of world. Vote bank or the
popular-ism based development should be replaced by welfare tools
Now let us turn focus on individual soul. As a human, mostly all of
us are very optimistic for length of life. We take the life span for
granted and keep running after wealth loosing our real love in forms of kids, family ,good hobbies, music, singing and reading .All of
these good habits provide natural relaxation to mind and body. To

keep routine going on we forget all of it. At top of it, we even do not
care to meet parents and ask for their needs. Then suddenly one day 
 we, notice that we are at risk of loosing life without any self fault.
For most of Jain Jainism is limited to Navkarmantra, Visit to temple
and Jain food. We never think to spare time to purify soul by way of
Samaik, Pratikaman .Swadhya, Gurudarshan, reading Jain literature
Mahveerswami and other noble Aacharyaji left for us a tremendous
treasure in form of Aagam .Bhaktamber and all Jain literature. But

we generally fail to have reading of it. Even Mahaveer Bhagwan

gave 48 hours lecture before his salvation in "Uttaradhaynsutra" to
brief us basics of soul ,we do not care to read it. Let all this change.
Let us realize the sudden threats and twists of life. Whatever good
things we failed to attain spiritually ,charity, serving humanity, shall
be introduced in our life. We all agree that human life is much more
precious than to run after money, greed and anger .Hope to have a
better conscience and divine light to guide us.

   एक मुद्दत से आरज़ू थी फुरसत की ... मिली , तो इस शर्त पे कि किसी से ना मिलो ..!! *सुप्रभात*

JAI JINENDRA---------!!!--------- JAI MAHAVEER----------!!!. 

JAINISM-BRIGHT SIDE OF A LIVING SOUL--------------!!!.

Friends, the outbreak of Corona virus griped the whole world in a unknown fear. Falling stock markets, reduced number of flights both
in domestic and international travel and travel advisory by various
Governments are some of the few indications of panic. Outbreak is
on large scale giving doubts of pandemic. So far, exact causes and
transmission mode of disease is not known. This worst ever event has bought important positive side of soul and human relationship.

primarily cause established by research, observations  is said to be a

spread through human, metal. clothes etc. contact. Till as of now no
anti vaccine can be found. However clinical trials are being under-
taken. On other hand positive attitude and higher immunity system
,hygiene are said to bring remarkable recovery in infected patients.
It may make us to redraw our meals plan, replacing junk food by
healthy diet rich with vitamins and proteins. Taste of tongue will
now be secondary than to build heavy immune system within. One
can definitely think for Indian vegetarian /Jain food if possible. 
 At-least drinking hot or ash mixed water can be thought of. Second
thing one can is to cut social gathering to prevent spread of it.

 In this  cloudy background what made me to feel proud is care we 
take for all. The medical team of various hospitals. doctors. nurses,
screening and other staff at airport, nursing staff at isolation wards
all are extending possible help to save lives. All states are taking
care to airlift the stranded citizens. It all shows that we care for life
of a single living unit. It is said that human is most stubborn out of
all living souls. He is not here to give it up easily. All over the
world day and night the efforts must be going on to fix the issue at earliest and on a permanent basis. Doctors, technicians of Lab ,all

are serving humanity at cost of own life. Indeed great contribution-!.
Nonetheless still one need to think allocation to public health by
States. Do we allocate more to it than on weapons need to review.
We have shortage of labs and testing kits as report suggest. Human history is full of such epidemic from the beginning for
successful wars fought against calamities. I have no doubt soon, we
will defeat the virus and stand as a true warrior and winner .I from
my schooldays remember two Marathi poems. One say that human
is at mercy of destiny .He is not at liberty to live own life.

While other challenges sea .He says seas has boundaries but human
efforts have no limitations. His thrive to live will find a solution.

 My prayers and sympathy are with all those who are fighting the
virus on individual and collective basis .One super post ,I will like
to share with all of such fighting spirits. It emphasis the power of
prayers and faith. One may belong to any faith, do not forget to have
firm faith and prayers .Mind is more sick than body is such events.
So make mind strong with positive spirit and prayers. Only one's
firm determination and fighting spirit can defeat the virus. We know
our own self better than anyone else. If we and our conscience is
clear for past actions,it gives a higher inner strength to fight evils.
One can offer forgiveness for misdeeds to make heart lightweight.

If one can think for global welfare, soon he can have data causing
 points for such calamities. The reasons may lie in various human
mistakes may it may relate to reduced sun layer protection, heavy
air pollution. cutting of trees and jungles, capturing sea boundaries,
lack of proper garbage disposal, voice pollution. The list can be endless. We all are committing grave mistakes to hand over a really
bad, polluted earth to our future generation inviting such disaster.

 Let this tragedy act as eye opener for all of us. Let we shall value
life of all living souls including plants, animals and birds. let us not 
 only shed tears for death by nature but man made deaths shall also
made us cry as life of every one is as lovable as our own life. Hope
world leaders will care for humanity and gave up it's biochemical
weapons plan if any forever.

 JAI JINENDRA----------------!!!--- JAI MAHAVEER----------!!!.

JAINISM-RELIGIOUS MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD-------!!!-------PART---2.

Friends memories cannot be said to be completed unless one shares memories of parents .Parents and teachers play a major role to shape
mental frame of a kid. I was not exception to this basic rule. On the
contrary, I was more gifted compared to my counterparts. My father was an educated personality. In British era of pre- independence .he 
has completed matriculation. he was well read.Many poems and Sholaks from Geeta, Manache-sholak, he remembered well.He was
well traveled for Gurudarshan and Thirth. I remember visiting with
him to Ahmedabad, Jodhpur and many other Thirth. Yearly he used
to welcome devotees with sugar juice on Mahveer Jyanti. As per
family legacy he used to practice preaching of Pujya Jaymaljiguru.

He has a deep faith for Jainism. Due to engagement he failed to be
fully engaged in it. He has too many friends in town. T hat can be a good thing from living in small town. Almost whole town get to
 know you well and vice versa. His generation may not have a
higher education in today's term. But they all were highly educated
in art of living. I never saw a fear or nervousness on his face even

facing odds of life. He was a ardent believer of Karma theory of our
Jain religion. I still recall his four Sutra of life as he usually spoke.
1.As per his simple Karma theory all living soul are being governed
by self built Karmas. Not a single other force can trouble us. He
taught me to keep silence in bad time and move on silently. As per
his theory to challenge time and destiny may invite more trouble.

2.-Marathi Sant Tukaram has one famous Abhang."Aaliya Bhogasi
Asave Sadar".It means we must face all risen Karma with coolness.
Tukarammaharaj and Ramdaswami were his favorites one.

3.-His favorite 1 liner was "Honi Ko Namskar Hai".Honi means
happening. Whatever happens,respect it and move on softly.To
adjust with happenings or events is only available in our hands.
4.-Forth simple one liner his father taught him and he shared with 
us. It was " Niti Mein Khot Nahi".Niti derived from Hindi word
"Niyat"means intentions and Khot means wrong. Never to act with wrong intentions. Your decisions may be wrong but never with bad
or wrong intentions of harming others. It makes one fearing sins.
I was witness to  possible extent of his major up and down between
his period (1926 to 1992) including his illness. I was surprised to
imagine how he carried on his struggle. Till today I am proud of him
and his generation .I really wonder how his generation lived life with such a easy attitude for life together. Caring for each other and the

strong bondage with religion was their basic foundation .It helped
all of them to live a king size life even with less money. no any
other help of laptop, net or Google and less or no medical facilities.
He treated his whole circle as one family. As a senior member ,he
took care of each one without caring for personal financial loss.
I remember a Urdu-sher for his fighting spirit. It says like this---.
( Nakudha means sailor and Langar means parking rope of ship).

Lastly I remember my mother for her determination. She was not
much educated. But at advice of Gurumata, she learnt Pratikaman
after reaching plus 50 years of age. Her speed of work, expertise in
cooking and ability to bought up kids was really amazing. I feel proud for both of them and their entire generation. One needs to
have much positive accumulated Karmas to have such parents.
I am sure everyone from us must have such wonderful parents.
At last pay my tribute to my dad with his favorite song of Kavi
Pradeep. With philosophy similar to song he tried his best to offer
help to his his possible level to his circle, friends and relatives .It is
but natural in time of distress so many hands backed him.

JAI JINENDRA--------------!!!--------JAI MAHAVEERA-----!!!. 

JAINISM--RELIGIOUS MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD-------!!!------PART---1.

Friends with moving of Gurudeo ,unseen force guiding me to pen down blog was missing. It created a void for me. This gap coupled
with February 2020 communal riots in Delhi made me sad. Riots
are not uncommon in India since days of partition. Slowly reaction
is changing. Previously majority felt bad for such incidents. Now a
small class enjoy the category of dead's caste. No doubt still news
of silver lining coming to ears. Some one giving shelters to other
casts ,while some are protecting worship places of other religion.

All this forced me to revisit my childhood's memories. For all of us 
childhood period is a golden period.Reasons may be different  but  this period opens gates of sweet memories for all of us. One reason
I feel each time past time was richer in values than current one. The
old time of 1960 was different. People were trusting each other very
easily. There was no need to pass through security checks in shops,
malls,stations etc. Small bunch of bad people has damaged forever
the structure ,innocence and trust of society and nation as a whole.

 I belonged to small town in Maharashtra state of Dhulia district.
Our town has a real cosmopolitan culture. Nobody was bothered to
check out other people's religious practices, food habits or speaking
languages. Each one is busy in one's business. Main reason was
lack of money. Till 1991 the rupee has small but real value. T hen the number of Rupee flows increased with reduction in  real value.
No doubt it resulted in fall of moral values also. We used to practice
religion as per individual legacy. At the same time ,we had mutual
respect for other's faith. I have friends from all communities. I used
to visit Sthanak, Jain Derasar for a while doing small time Puja

with Navkar and Loggas. Whenever monks visited town going for
their Darshan was a must. This was my practice of Jain religion.
But rest of times with friends I also visited Hindu temples ,Kirtan
and other holy places. When my Muslim friend decided to go to
Ajmer Sharif for blessing, he took group of his five friends along
with his ailing father ,I was in his group. With my mother I attended
many ladies religious festivals like Teej, Gingor, Shitlamata Pujan.
Attending Satyanarayan Puja andNavratri Dandiya was common.

From Rajastan there were special team of play group doing play
of Ramayana. Ramdeobaba and puppet show. Vridavan Pandit did
Kirtan of Shrikrisna and Mahabharat at a  regular yearly basis.

Now, moving to metropolitan city, I missed it all. With influence of
Gurudeo,I could understand Jainism to a basic level. Gurudeo made
me to understand Samkit and it's requirement. It brought change in
me .confining me to single worship of Mahaveerswami Bhagwan.
On the same hand, with my childhood gift, I never forget to respect
faith of others. For all of us senior lot ,it is a need of an hour that we
impart training to our kids to value price of a single life ,respect the
freedom of religious faith and to keep away from hate crimes. For a
mob of rioters use of a fire stick with petrol may be a small thing
but ,the subsequent destruction burn countless dreams forever.

Let us learn from our mistakes. What happened in Delhi shall act as
eye-opener for all of us. Check own self that we are not failing in
our duty towards  nation and social building by imparting liberal
training to our kids. Teach them if human is missing what purpose
the holy places built so far will be serving------------------------???.

JAI JINENDRA---------------!!!-------JAI MAHAVEER--------!!!.