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26. Navakara Gives New Life Experience of Shri Vinod L. Shah
– Vijayabhadra
This is a ten-year old story. As usual, a Punjabi friend of mine had come to my shop in the summer season. He deserved all compassion, confused as he was financially, tired of life, rejected by his relatives and full of suffering.
However, he was very much intelligent. He was an adept in imaginative powers. He was an expert in machinery work in fitting and adjustments.
But he lost his senses after beauties and money. He would tread the wrong way as soon as he got money. He became lusty on seeing a beautiful girl. This was his way of life.
Once he happened to see on my table the book "Illustrated Navakara" in Hindi. He was attracted by its printing of fine pictures, its simple analysis. He took the book in his hand. The friend who kept himself at an arms' length from dharma began to read it with a peaceful mind.
He read the book fully. 'The Mantra annihilates sorrows of lives," and "It yields the status of Parama Atma" - he read these and the discussion thereon. His Atma that was asleep awoke and began to dance.
His dormant Chaitanya (consciousness) awoke and felt pleasant. He thought to himself. If this great Mantra immortalised Amara, turned a snake into a garland of flowers, made a king of a beggar, how can I not win uprise? He thought to himself : "The Mantra has its dominance in all spheres and at all times. It is certainly
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