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3. Meaning of The Vruddha
Namaskara Stotra Fala
O Bhadra! keep yourself ever prepared to pay your respect and salutation to the Arihantas who have conquered the group of (Bhavashatrus) enemies of our inner feelings;
the divine Siddhas who are purified and free from the dirt of karmas;
the divine Acharyas who observe the right conduct;
the revered Upadhyayas who bless us with Bhavasutras, and, the revered Sadhus who are the Sadhakas of blessed good and happiness.
What is meant here is that our inner consciousness must become all indulgent towards this salutation.(1 to 4)
This is because this salutation causes the annihilation of countless pains and sorrows of the Atmas that are busy fighting in the battle of life. This leads one on to the path of bliss.
(5) Again, it is a virile seed of the desire-yielding tree (Kalpataru) of bliss;
it is a powerful and lustrous sun that leads one above the mountains of mundane life;
it is the Garuda bird which brings to submission the cobras in the form of sins;
it is the jaw of the Varaha that uproots the very roots of the Kanda of poverty;
it is the ground of the Rohana mountain for the birth of the jewel of equanimity;
it constitutes the flowering of the tree in form of the Ayushyabandha of rise to sublimation;
