JAINISM--FACING THE DIFFICULT TIME----!!!--. PART-1.

This Sunday was last lecture of Pujya Gurudeo at our suburb before moving to a new destination. I made it a must point not to miss this.
Here is the related coverage. In question answer session one devotee
with due permission put a question to Gurudeo "Sir can you please
guide me  how to face difficult time .Since last 5 years I am going
through a very testing time mentally and physically. I do not wish to
elaborate it in this hall but you can guess it. While you were here, it was a source of strength ,now your moving will be a great loss and
darkness for me" With a choked voice he said. Gurudeo looked  him
and replied "Certainly. I will try it with Bhagwan's teachings. There
is no darkness till the Jinwani is with you all. Mind well. here you

 are not alone. In present time it is the same case with all of living
one. Anyhow you have gathered courage to speak out while others
are keeping to their heart. Those sufferings souls are going through
is a feature of this period. As Mahaveer Swami has warned this fifth
cycle of Avasarpini  is called as "Dukham Aara".The total period of
21000 years will be marked by maximum sorrows. Thus you might
have noticed that our grandfather lived a more happy and tension
free life than our father. As the name suggests day by day this era
will be watching fall in moral values, ethics and peace. Even with
running after so called happiness we will invite additional sorrows.
The time is not to be blamed alone. We will cover other points also.
This period is termed as "Pancham Aara" in Aagam.

Please note following references of Bhagwatisutra ,from which I,
intend to guide this august house. Please have a homework for it.
1.-12/05-Bhagwan told Karma is shaping all changes in our lives.
2.-01/02-All living souls has to face Karma on maturity time. Those
Karma were built by the particular soul facing it.
3.-03/03-There is first Karma and then result. Result do not happens
without action out of sudden or  on trial basis.
4.-16/02-Souls with mind will have additional mental sorrows.
5.-01/03-Karma are of two type-Pradeshkarma and Anubhagkarma.
While all Karmas have to faced, Pradeshkarma one may not felt. But
Anubhag Karma has to be faced as built in case of Nikachitkarma,
One can reduce the severity of other than Nikachit with Nirjara
before they get matured. All above clearly emphasis the role of the
rise of Karma in our lives. With reading Bhagwan's Karma theory
and putting full faith into it, you can guess the root cause of sorrow.

As a basic rule of Jainism, we all have to suffer alone in silence.
Guru, relatives, friends no one can share the pain on our behalf.
Others can only pray and sympathize for you. Take a example, if
you happened to taste  chilly powder, you will taste the burning for
the particular moment. As a proverb the wearer can only know how
the shoe is troubling him. Even I can guess your sufferings but I do
not have remedy to put immediate end to it. I can guide you only to
face the results calmly. I knew that it is but natural to loose calm and
peace in adversities for a lay man. But as a follower of Mahaveer
Swami, Jain are at a better position to bear the shocks. Now, I will
discuss your personal case as a sample study for all of you.

Friends, since Gurudeo continued the session for another 15 minutes,
I will cover the balance lecture in next second part of this blog .

JAI MAHAVEER-------------!!!--------JAI JINEDRA-----------!!!.

JAINISM--NAVKAR MANTRA FULL TEXT----------!!.

Friends my attendance to Gurudeo's lecture on  last full dark day (Pakkhi) can be very useful for all Navkarmantra lovers and Jain. In
the lecture Gurudeo covered  full text of Navkar. A devotee asked
him why the Mantra  is termed as Navkar. Here is related coverage.
"Devanupriya, today I will cover the full text of Navkarmantra. The
original Mantra has full text .Later on for handy use of lay man, i t

got reduced to present form. Even this edited version covers original
meaning. Let me explain it. This is original one. It is being called 
as Navkar because Nav means 9 and Kar means best suited actions.
Bhagwan asked all devotees to live life by bowing to first 5 deities
and by adopting last 4 virtues. Let us learn last four virtues. Even
when Pada are 9,there is "Panch" in full text to keep original intact. 

These 9 Pada are used daily 9 days in Navpaad Ayambil Oli. Let us
check it's meaning. You all know the meaning of first 5 Padas. The
sixth Pada is bowing down to correct knowledge. Next is related to
correct faith, next one is bowing down to correct conduct and last
one is bowing down to Tap (Keeping fast and correct conduct).
Here correct means the ways exactly told by Bhagwan Mahaveer
through 32 Aagams. In real sense the last 4 are the ways of getting
salvation. All travelers to path of salvation are covered in first five
deities. All devotees having status of Shrawaks will soon join this
path by taking Diksha and entering  the holy fifth stage of Sadhuji.

As I have already explained this Mantra is totally bowing down to
virtues of soul of all 3 periods. There is no mention of any name
or part of universe. All travelers on this virtue path is definite to get
liberated from cycles of life and death. Navkarmantra is the basic
summary of Jainism. five Pada of five deities cover in all 108 virtue.
They are 12+08+36+25+27 serially. When a soul chat a Navkar ,he
is indirectly bowing down to 108 virtues of all noble souls. Navkar
One must learn all 108 virtues as given in Pratikamana-Sutra.

Navkarmantra is a divine, holy and most auspicious of Jain religion.
One may to try to remember full text. Last four Pada are related to

Dyan, Dharshan. Charitrya and Tap. When we refer the full text one
may call it Navkar. When you refer smaller version it is to be called
as Namokar .It is a slight difference to differentiate Nav-9 nine and
Namo-Namaskar. There is no harm as long as one chat it utmost
sincerity and devotion". Smaller version\s last four lines gives us purpose, result, nature and objects of Navkar .In full text the 6 to 9
lines give tools to nullify all Karmas"  Gurudeo concluded lecture.

JAIJINENDRA------------------!!! JAI MAHAVEER---------!!!.

JAINISM-REMOVE HATE SEEDS OF HEART---!!!-- PART- -2.

"Devanupriya in first session we have seen hate and it's implication on large scale-Gurudeo started second session. Now in second part, I intend to discuss hate on personal levels. May I ask august house 
to introspection of self soul. Just review if your personality is being
marked by any personal allergy. Just check if  you gets irritated by behavior or action. Do you ever try to mold others to suit your own

thinking and personality ?.One need to evaluate damages caused.
There is a difference in hate and dislike. To dislike taste, smell etc.
may be personality preference but to hate what we dislike is a sin.
We carry so many hate points in our brain against various known
people like relatives, subordinates, seniors, neighbors to name a few. 

If it is so let us try to rethink our attitude and behavior. Try to avoid
such attempts. Let's care sentiments of others and starve to preserve
their freedom and liberty to live own life on own terms. Here I do not call anyone to compromise on good upbringing of kids. In the
interest of his bright future some time parents needs to be harsh. His
bad habits needs to create hate in himself to make him give up.

Hate is not always conveyed with words simply. Mostly it is shown
by eyes or body language. Second type is more injurious to peace of
any soul. Jainism always believe to hate sin rather than sinner. One
may be a victim of  given circumstances which forced him to be on
wrong path .Once he can cut his knowledge covering Karmas he can
be back on right path. In case of his willingness try to educate him.

Set of like and dislike may change with time .In childhood one may
dislike drinking milk or study but when it comes to parenting we
do not like kids to refuse milk or to study. Those changes are in
with generation switch. One must take care to see that dislikes do
not get turn into hate. Even to be neutral approach towards dislike
 can be a better option. A small heated argument or quarrel may act
to cut the life long relationships. Talk ,hear, explain, forgive like tool
can help to overcome hate. Let us make this opportunity of life to make all living souls happy and peacefully. Let us respect freedom
of each one to carry on his or her faith with dignity. It can no doubt  be a great contribution to mankind. We shall look towards each one  as fellow visitor to this beautiful planet.

Just give a try to remove hate seeds from heart. Once can definitely save sins and feel light. Make it a care point not to carry forward any baggage of hate while making exit from this lovely beautiful world.
I appreciate your patient hearing so long. Thanks a lot to allow me 
 to represent with fraction of  Jainism."Gurudeo concluded.

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

JAINISM-REMOVE HATE SEEDS OF HEART---!!!----PART--1.

 "Thankfully,we do not take birth with tag of religion or nationality. Gurudeo was addressing to a joint session of all religion conference
in our city. In a rare gathering the crowd was eager to hear all saints.
Herewith the related summarized coverage for all my Blog readers.

He continued-"Even then, the 19th century era has witnessed gas chambers in Germany, use of deadly nuclear weapons in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. If one tries to find out the root cause behind it, then

the seeds of hate for various reasons gives birth to tragedies. We inherit religion or nationality from our parents and birth place.
As we grow surrounding. society, school, books and our upbringing
start shaping our likes and dislikes. Journey till this point can be said to be natural if it is confined to self. Problems starts after this one

point. Human nature allows a individual soul to spread the wings of
hate. Slowly the particular soul start to hate any faith or thinking,
which may be different from his own set of truth. Such hate covers
number of subjects which may cover religion, nationality, caste and
breed, politics, intelligence or wealth levels, food habits and likes.
Mixed with superiority complex things start getting worse. Small
flame of hate may turn into devastating volcano for mankind.

In my opinion, not a single religion on earth preaches to hate others.
I firmly believe it and all distinguished saints present on this dais
will vouch for it. In fact love, peace and affection towards all living
souls ,is the basic foundation of all religions. Still anyhow, we get
trapped in the vicious circle of hate knowingly or unknowingly.
 Jain religion categorically terms hate as sin. In total of 18 sins, hate
occupies 11th rank. Hate kills the inner peace and innocence of any
soul. The reference to sin and rank is based on Bhagwati 01/09.

Jainism approves differential thinking and adoption level. It's theory
of "Anekantvaad " establishes that truth can be reached by various
methods. With it chances of hate are reduced to minimal levels.
There is no scope of hate for other religions in Jainism. Neither are
attempts are made for religion conversion. It's main principle of
non violence nullify the mass killings .Even plants to ants are taken
care of. If an expert historian is asked to tabulate all purposes for which wars were fought or are being fought, I believe hate for the
religion or country will top the list. We have to look to future of 
our next generations and must decide if we want to continue the
same pattern. War, communal riots are certainly not a indication of a
civil society. If the world is treated as one family, we can increase our happiness while leaving the life

.Hope we will consider to live  happily for ever. To respect time schedule I take break and will carry on my next ten minutes session
session as scheduled after it . "Gurudeo concluded.

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

  

JAINISM--BE CONNECTED WITH DHARMA--------!!.

Friends ,I realized that a break in any routine is too difficult to cope with. After Gurudeo left the premises after four months, we missed
his lectures very much. On full dark day, I made it a point to attend
his lecture in nearby area with our group. Here is the summary.
"Devanupriya ,today I intend to brief you all on importance of our
connectivity with Dharma or religion .If we look at masses at large
we can see that number of people engaged in sins are more and
people suffering is also large. On the other hand the people who

cares to avoid sins and happy is much lesser. If one try to analysis
the probable causes, it can be variation in connectivity levels with
Dharma. Dharma can offer you mental peace and simple living. Path
of life is too difficult. The rope of Dharma protect us everywhere.
Dharma is to surrender to almighty with faith. It is beyond logic and
science. It may not bring immediate miracles or relief but definitely
it will support a falling guy mentally.

Here ,I will like to present a example of water. A connectivity with
water by cement can convert it into concrete. A glass of water in a
desert can save a life. Water in fertile land can work wonders for
agricultural land. Same way Dharma can change our destiny present
and future. Dharma is a rope which can assist to walk on road of life
Take another example of a kite. A kite supported by a string can be
sure to land on earth while a needle can be protected if it is duly

fixed  by a string. A torch in hand while passing through forest in 
a dark night can ensure smooth walking. Same is case with human.
If we are attached to Dharma ,we can face the adversities of life in a
much calm ways. Dharma grants us wisdom to remain calm in life.
Dharma assist you to know soul and your last destination- Moksha.
Getting Jain religion is the most precious gift one can get from his
good deeds. As a peculiar human nature we don't care about what
we get without oblivious cost or labor. One shall not allow it happen

Jain religion is being started by Bhagwan Rishabhdevji He is called
as "Aadinath" Aadi means beginner.All subsequent Thirtankars also form "Thirth" after the continuation gets broken by salvation of the previous Thirthankar. One may ask how I can attach to Dharma--- ?.
The answer is simple.If one cares for others and avoid sins and 4
Kashay it is Dharma Kashay covers anger, pride .cheating and greed.
Second part consist of time and sacrifice. It covers Samaik, fast,
reading Aagam. All such rituals train us to have correct behavior.
You are fortunate enough to have Jainism as religion. I do hope
you will utilize the opportunity in most efficient manner.Keep it
mind forever Dharma will definitely stand by  you when you need
it in most negative phase of life"Gurudeo concluded.

JAIJINENDRA--------------!!!--------JAI MAHAVEER---------!!!.

JAINISM---FINAL DEPARTURE AND ALLOWED BAGGAGE------------!!!.

Friends 2019 Chaturmas ended on 12/11/2019. We gathered to bid farewell to Gurudeo on 13th November 2019.Here is the summary of his last lecture before moving to next destination for Blog readers.
"Devanupriya,at start of Chaturmas the period of 4 months seemed
to be long enough. At  end of it, we find it a too small period. This
is the speed of time. It passes and we do not realize it. Entire human
life from a kid to old age is being marked by same speed. While we 

pass through present stage, we do not bother about passing time. At
the end we realize the mistake. In last four moths, I tried my best to
present Jinwani to maximum of my capacity. As you all are aware
after this lecture, I will leave this location. It is as per order of our
respected Bhagwan Mahveer. As per his instructions any monk
after completing 120 days must leave the place on Migsar  Vadi 1st.

In normal travel to enjoy our travel, we take care to have minimum
of baggage. Most of us do not bother to plan of final departure from
current world. We assume to be an immortal self. Unfortunately it is
a myth. We conveniently forget the most certain event in form of a
death. Death is a certain event with uncertain time of happening.
We fail to acknowledge death, as a result of it the planning for last
baggage remains absolutely missing. Forgetting probable death. we
keep on running here and there for material things. We add all types
of wealth and relations. In the process of accumulation we forget the

wrong deeds or sins which might have helped us to maximize the 
wealth. All such negative acts causes the accompanying baggage to
get heavier in form of Karma. Just give a thought what can one take
along with him while bidding last farewell----?.Dollars, rupee or any
other currency, gold. silver or diamonds ?.One may list hundreds of
precious things. As a thumb rule over the centuries not a single penny could have been deported. Then why we live a stressful life for ever is a question we should ask ourselves. All type of wealth end with last breath and all relations ends in graveyard. Harsh fact
of human life irrespective of status of a deceased  person. It is a sad
irony of human life that we care less for baggage of our own soul
and we care much for baggage which cannot carry but to be handed
over to others.The beneficiaries may or may not remember you.

We are proud of our wealth. We cherish related memories and get happiness. As a practice a document called succession certificate,
probate or will  in favor of nominees can change our ownership in
less than 24 hours. At this last lecture. I just want to make you all
aware for the final departure. Material things have not accompanied
any one nor will accompany you. So take care of your positive and
negative deeds and resultant Karmas" .If one truly follow Bhagwan
Mahaveers's fifth Vrata of non-possessions, he can have minimum

baggage to carry at departure time. If one could not reduce his love for material things, at least take care not to add wealth by wrong means. corruption, fraud and cheating " Gurudeo concluded.

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

JAINISM--GOSHALAK-THE SOUL WHO TROUBLED BHAGWAN-----!!!

Friends Jain culture has a particular tradition to celebrate a day to celebrate knowledge. It is known as"Dyanpanchmi". It is the 5th day after Diwali. It is widely believed that it is best auspicious day
to begin learning of "Aagam".Aacharyadevgani Shraman started to

compose Aagam on this day. Gurudeo read 15th chapter of the Sutra
Bhagwatiji. It is based on life of main disciple of Bhagwan named
Mankhiyaputra Goshalak. Later on after taking Dikha from Pujaya Bhagwan Mahaveerswami ,this monk revolted against Bhagwan. He refused to believe teachings of Bhagwan Mahaveer and formed his
own theory advocating destiny"Niyativaad".Gurudeo selected this
chapter to guide us for what Bhagwan's intentions to tell it at full
length to Guruguatamswami. Telling, reading or listening this needs
fast or Aaimbil to protect from bad vibes of some heavenly Gods. I
listened to it having Pachkan of two Porishi. Readers can decide for.

The moral of it is never to disrespect Guru or any knowledgeable
person. Bhagwan saved him from a strong weapon "Tejoleshaya".
It is obtained by a vigorous fast. It empowers the user to burn any
soul or object. Goshalak came to argue with Bhagwan. In process,
he got angry and abused Bhagwan. When  two of Bhagwan's monks
named "Sarvanubhutiji and Sunakshtraji" tried to pacify him. he
used "Tejoleshya" and killed them out of his sheer burning anger.

At the end he got upset and angry, used another Tejoleshaya to kill
Mahaveerbhagwan himself. But he could not succeed. The fire used was capable of burning 16 country. Just imagine power The burning
caused heavy health problem to Bhagwan. While using it ,the fire
moved around Bhagwan and returned to Goshalak. It caused death
of Goshalak in 7 days. The power of the flames of Tejoleshaya was
able to burn sixteen states of Bharatkhetra as named in Sutra.

Bhagwan's devotee were worried for health of Bhagwan. Bhagwan
knew his time of last breath. He informed them that nothing bad will happened to him. For next16 years he will be alive and fully getting
engaged in spreading the light of Jinwani. After six months of the
event, Sinhaangar got medicine as Bhagwan advised him from
Rewatishrawika and got cured fully. With unique charity Shravika has built higher Gati's life The medicine she gace was known as
"Bijorapaak.".The sin committed by Goshalak was too serious. It

might have action of few hours but the act delayed his salvation by
countless births. At the last time of his death, Goshalak only felt bad
for his action so he touched "Samkit" but failed to say sorry to the
Bhagwan with a regret feelings. As a result he could not become
"Aaradhak" and paying a heavy price for it in form of numerous
life and death cycles in all four Gaties. With good deed balance.at
present he is in 12th Deologa Devotees need not to have any bad or
ill feelings towards souls who have made Bhagwan to suffer. We all need only to pray for their regaining  correct knowledge and faith.

With this chapter Bhagwan gave us a warning to care for our any
type of disrespect. On this day one can also read the"Nandisutra".It
informs the types of five knowledge. Chandakaushik and Goshalak
both troubled Bhagwan deeply. But Chandakaushik, when came to know the greatness of Bhagwan ,he asked for his forgiveness but
Goshalak failed to do it. This difference in attitude decided their next lives and salvation. Chandakaushik will have comparatively less time

for getting liberated, We shall learn from mistakes of him and never forget obligations of Guru who gave us Dyan " Gurudeo concluded.

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