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49. Mahamantra Navakara Puts Down All Evils
Vaidyaraj Kantilal Devchand Shah Post-Jhinjhuvada, via Viramgam
Anuyogacharya Revered Shri Kantivijayji M. S. had his Chaturmasa at Jhinjhuvada in V. S. 1983-84. We came together after ten years. In childhood our parents died. The elder brother of my father gave his religious heritage and all faith towards the unique faith in the Navakara Mantra. Visiting Munis and Acharyas delivered learned lectures on the Navakara. There was mass propitiation of the Mantra as also reading of finest literature and pondering over the Mantra. This led to firm regard for the Mantra. Just as the Japa of the Navakara Mantra went higher, the invisible power of the Mantra began to reveal itself; it seemed as if every movement of life was passing along with the Mantra.
A few examples of its power are given here.
In my young days, I went to wash clothes with a friend. After washing the clothes we entered the waters for a bath. We lost the idea of the deep waters and began to drown. But for the help that arrived all of a sudden, we would have been drowned. Some unknown person came, held our hands, brought us out. The person disappeared even before we regained ourselves.
We had a miraculous association with the Navakara Mantra in Samvat 1995 on the 9th bright day morning of the month Posha. The wife of Shri Panachandbhai's brother Devachandbhai, alias my worthy mother, when
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