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preceptor wanted me to stay. I have taken leave and have come."
On hearing this, all heads bowed down. To-day also he is in sound health. When he meets us, he specifically says : "Now I have become firm on two points. Let death come whenever it will; I do not fear it. Again, thanks to my revered preceptor, the Navakara has become my very life; with every breath I remember it.”
Many more such examples can be found in this world. Therefore the scripture writes :
"What can the mundane world do to the one whose heart is saturated with Shri Navakara ?”
For all men of this mundane world, suffering as they do from passions, thirsty of worldly joys, the real refuge is given only by the Namaskara Mahamantra. The learned divinities say
"In this meaningless mundane world, the only thing worth is the Navakara Mantra.
The Mantra is the very purport of the Jaina order. It is the right and precise uplift of the fourteen Purvas. It is the best of the Shreyas; the best of all benedictions.”
It destroys all calamities, calms down sins, fulfills all desires and dries up the sea of life; it is the very basis of the happiness of this world and the higher world.
The greatness and glory of this Mantra is indescribable in words; words cannot possibly endow us with a grasp of all this. It annihilates all sins, puts an end to the mundane world, uproots at Karmas, gives delight to the whole Sangha, raises a series of
