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4. Meaning of The Verses in "Shlokatarangini"
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Give up sleep in the half of the last 3 hours of the night and recite, with all your mind, speech and body engrossed in it, the Paramesthi Mantra that holds unparallelled expertise in suppressing the demons in form of evil deeds.
That mind in which are inspired the lines of this roya Mantra which inspires the higher good, proves that other magical charms, medicines, or chintamani etc. are of no use.
(2) All the nine phrases in this Mantra are the very purport of all philosophical doctrines. In these also the first five are extremely lofty. Noble men accept these as chief great aim in view.
One in whose mouth are dominantly present five jewels in form of the Paramesthi at the time of death attains to the noble state in the next birth.
(4) Victorious indeed is this sacred Navakara Mantra which yields desired rewards in both the worlds. Its firs five phrases are known as Panchatirthi by the Tirthankaras. Its sixty-eight letters which form the ven basic doctrines of the Jain order eulogized as sixty eigh places of pilgrimage and its eight Sampadas are described as eight incomparable Siddhis that destroy darkness of knowledge.
(5 At the time of dinner, sleep, awakening, fear calamity and at all times this fivefold salutation should be muttered.
So many persons, by the repeated recitation o this Mantra, have crossed over the ocean in form o mundane life and will do so in the present and the future
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