Monday, February 26
Monday, February 19
Logass ka paath
I begin by welcoming my readers. Today I am going to tell you about logass ka paath. It is a beautiful paath whose enchanting gives you all you want.
Basically, its vitality lies in the fact that it worships all the twenty-four tirthankaras, and gives you all the blessings of the world. Its nicety lies in its meaning, truly respectable.
It is a prayer to the 24 Jinas (Tirthankars) and the Siddhas. The language of the sutra is Prakrit
Well, here is it...
Here is the meaning:
Who have enlightened the world,
have established the dharma-thirtha,
I praise the Arihantas
the twenty four kevalis.
I worship Rushabha and Ajita,
Sambhava, Abhinanda and Sumati,
Padmaprabha, Suparshva,
I worship the Chandraprabha Jina.
Suvidhi or pushpadanta,
Shitala, Shreyansa and Vasapujya,
Vimala and Ananta Jina,
I worship Dharma and Shanti.
Kunthu, Ara and Malli,
I worship Muni-Suvrata and Nami Jina,
I worship Arishtanemi,
Parshva and Vardhman.
These who I praise,
without the dirt of Karma, beyond old age and death,
the 24 Jinas,
may Tirthankaras bless me.
Those who I praise and worship,
noble Siddhas in the world,
freedom from disease, possession of wisdoms
give me the noble blessing of Samadhi.
Cleaner than the moons
Brighter than the Suns,
deeper than ocean,
the Siddhas may bless me with Siddhi.
have established the dharma-thirtha,
I praise the Arihantas
the twenty four kevalis.
I worship Rushabha and Ajita,
Sambhava, Abhinanda and Sumati,
Padmaprabha, Suparshva,
I worship the Chandraprabha Jina.
Suvidhi or pushpadanta,
Shitala, Shreyansa and Vasapujya,
Vimala and Ananta Jina,
I worship Dharma and Shanti.
Kunthu, Ara and Malli,
I worship Muni-Suvrata and Nami Jina,
I worship Arishtanemi,
Parshva and Vardhman.
These who I praise,
without the dirt of Karma, beyond old age and death,
the 24 Jinas,
may Tirthankaras bless me.
Those who I praise and worship,
noble Siddhas in the world,
freedom from disease, possession of wisdoms
give me the noble blessing of Samadhi.
Cleaner than the moons
Brighter than the Suns,
deeper than ocean,
the Siddhas may bless me with Siddhi.
This is a very ancient prayer। And it is bound to change your life for ever for good. Believe me, just one read in a day keeps all evil and harm away. So, hereby, I appeal and request whole-heartedly to incorporate reading of this paath as an essential part of your routine, and notice the change in your life. For any qualms, you can comment on this post. Thank you for your time, my beloved readers.
Listen to Logass ka paath
Saturday, February 3
ONE SHORT EYE-OPENER
Today, I got to know about this short interesting example to illustrate our conditions.
Picture a blind man in a very large room. The room has just one small door. The blind man wants to get out of the room but doesn't know where is the door. After much futile labour, he devised a plan. He went near the wall and put a hand on the wall. He thought that he would move along the wall and get to the door finally, whether it be after a long time. He walked. An hour passed by but didn't reach the door yet (the room is so large). And then when he was just about to reach the door, his knee began to itch so painfully that he had to remove his hand from the wall and rub his knee with both his hands very vigorously. He passed by the door but didn't get to know about it. And then he put his hand on the wall...
Don't you feel magananimous or pathetic about that poor blind man? Well, first think about yourself.
The blind man is our soul, and the laaaaaarge room is this damn vast universe, where our soul resides, and roams continuously searching for that one Door.......moksha, yes, moksha.
It is highly unlikely that a soul (after the end of its one life) is reborn in manushya gati. Statistically, the probability approaches zero. And then, even if one gets this gati, it is far more unlikely that one gets 'dharma'. Do you know that in some parts of the world, there are people who eat other people. The actually devour babies and even children. You might be knowing about the Chinese who eat anything, absolutely anything. Why? because of the simple reason that there is absence of 'dharma', i.e. enlightenment or true awareness of what's right and what's wrong, about where we have come from and where do we have to go.
So consider yourself very lucky that you are a human, and yet a few times luckier that you are reading this, and knowing what dharma is.
Moksha is not a particular place where we have to go, rather it is a state of our soul, a permanent one. As our bondage with this strange world lessens, our soul moves towards moksha, its ultimate destination or better its ultimate state.
Picture a blind man in a very large room. The room has just one small door. The blind man wants to get out of the room but doesn't know where is the door. After much futile labour, he devised a plan. He went near the wall and put a hand on the wall. He thought that he would move along the wall and get to the door finally, whether it be after a long time. He walked. An hour passed by but didn't reach the door yet (the room is so large). And then when he was just about to reach the door, his knee began to itch so painfully that he had to remove his hand from the wall and rub his knee with both his hands very vigorously. He passed by the door but didn't get to know about it. And then he put his hand on the wall...
Don't you feel magananimous or pathetic about that poor blind man? Well, first think about yourself.
The blind man is our soul, and the laaaaaarge room is this damn vast universe, where our soul resides, and roams continuously searching for that one Door.......moksha, yes, moksha.
It is highly unlikely that a soul (after the end of its one life) is reborn in manushya gati. Statistically, the probability approaches zero. And then, even if one gets this gati, it is far more unlikely that one gets 'dharma'. Do you know that in some parts of the world, there are people who eat other people. The actually devour babies and even children. You might be knowing about the Chinese who eat anything, absolutely anything. Why? because of the simple reason that there is absence of 'dharma', i.e. enlightenment or true awareness of what's right and what's wrong, about where we have come from and where do we have to go.
So consider yourself very lucky that you are a human, and yet a few times luckier that you are reading this, and knowing what dharma is.
Moksha is not a particular place where we have to go, rather it is a state of our soul, a permanent one. As our bondage with this strange world lessens, our soul moves towards moksha, its ultimate destination or better its ultimate state.
Thursday, February 1
Ahimsa
Ahimsa is non-violence. It is the feeling that harming others is harmng oneself. It is the sense that others, be they animals or microbes, have as much right to live on this earth as ourselves. Ahimsa is to 'Live and Let live'. Ahimsa is one of the five basic principles of Jainism. One who practises ahimsa truly lowers his burden of 'karmas' and improves his/her fortune of getting a good form of life in future.
Ahimsa has many meanings, not just not killing or harming others, but many. First of all, if you are a non-vegetarian, you cannot be practising ahimsa. Non-veg itself comes from killing animals. Ahimsa means that you don't have to do any such work which directly or indirectly is causing killing of innocent living organisms. Ahimsa tells you to feel for others. It is to not harm others yourself and stop others from doing it.
Here are some examples which are not related with 'hinsa' at all, but are. Wearing leather belts or shoes or using leather in any form is hinsa, YOU are liable for the animals killed for the leather with which those were made. And if it is that damn necessary (e.g. for wallets), use resin instead, i.e. things made of resin, they work the same. Now, wearing silk is yet another form of hinsa. Why? Because, just to make 1 m of silk, about 500 silkworms are boiled to death. It is most barbarous of acts to kill so many organisms for just style when you have alternatives as synthetic silk, or cotton, or many more. Now, as already mentioned in my previous posts, even thinking about killing other organisms is hinsa. Buying a chewing gum, even if you dont eat it is hinsa since it contains gelatin, obtaining which involves killing. You know, even seeing violence in movies and serials involves hinsa, since somewhere in your mind, while the hero is killing the villain, there exists a feeling "go kill him" and here the hinsa comes in. And then, these are the examples of hinsa which are unavoidable. When you walk, you kill the 'sthavar' organisms below your feet in the floor. When you speak, the microbes in the air in front of your mouth are killed. (this can be avoided by keeping your hand in front of your mouth or 'mukhpatti' while speaking as you would have seen the jain sadhus, but isnt practical for us). When you eat, you are being the cause of killing as cooking the food kills the microbes in the food. And even when you excrete or urinate, it involves hinsa. You switch on the light in your room or use any electrical appliance, you are doing hinsa as electricity kills 'jeevs'. There are many more.
Now, recall; Recall everything you do in routine. There are numerous incidents or works done by us which causes hinsa. But many of them are impractical to prevent. SO, I appeal to all of you to atleast abandon those reasons of hinsa which can be left, to clean your soul from all sins. eg. try not to eat non-veg and avoid leather shoes.
You might know ahimsa as one of the basic principles of Gandhi, but do you know where he got it from, our 24th tirthankara 'mahavira'. His thinking were radically affected by the teachings of 'mahavira'. If you are a pure ahinsak, ahimsa alone can lay your path to moksha.
Ahimsa has many meanings, not just not killing or harming others, but many. First of all, if you are a non-vegetarian, you cannot be practising ahimsa. Non-veg itself comes from killing animals. Ahimsa means that you don't have to do any such work which directly or indirectly is causing killing of innocent living organisms. Ahimsa tells you to feel for others. It is to not harm others yourself and stop others from doing it.
Here are some examples which are not related with 'hinsa' at all, but are. Wearing leather belts or shoes or using leather in any form is hinsa, YOU are liable for the animals killed for the leather with which those were made. And if it is that damn necessary (e.g. for wallets), use resin instead, i.e. things made of resin, they work the same. Now, wearing silk is yet another form of hinsa. Why? Because, just to make 1 m of silk, about 500 silkworms are boiled to death. It is most barbarous of acts to kill so many organisms for just style when you have alternatives as synthetic silk, or cotton, or many more. Now, as already mentioned in my previous posts, even thinking about killing other organisms is hinsa. Buying a chewing gum, even if you dont eat it is hinsa since it contains gelatin, obtaining which involves killing. You know, even seeing violence in movies and serials involves hinsa, since somewhere in your mind, while the hero is killing the villain, there exists a feeling "go kill him" and here the hinsa comes in. And then, these are the examples of hinsa which are unavoidable. When you walk, you kill the 'sthavar' organisms below your feet in the floor. When you speak, the microbes in the air in front of your mouth are killed. (this can be avoided by keeping your hand in front of your mouth or 'mukhpatti' while speaking as you would have seen the jain sadhus, but isnt practical for us). When you eat, you are being the cause of killing as cooking the food kills the microbes in the food. And even when you excrete or urinate, it involves hinsa. You switch on the light in your room or use any electrical appliance, you are doing hinsa as electricity kills 'jeevs'. There are many more.
Now, recall; Recall everything you do in routine. There are numerous incidents or works done by us which causes hinsa. But many of them are impractical to prevent. SO, I appeal to all of you to atleast abandon those reasons of hinsa which can be left, to clean your soul from all sins. eg. try not to eat non-veg and avoid leather shoes.
You might know ahimsa as one of the basic principles of Gandhi, but do you know where he got it from, our 24th tirthankara 'mahavira'. His thinking were radically affected by the teachings of 'mahavira'. If you are a pure ahinsak, ahimsa alone can lay your path to moksha.
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