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Experience of Shri Namaskara
Alas! today has arisen my great merit so that I am sincerely delighted to chant salutations in the five revered Parameshthis. I have crossed over the ocean of life, for otherwise, where am I, where my Navakara and where my contact with it?
My Atma was rotating here and there since times infinite, helplessly because of ignorance. Today I have come across the highest refuge. This is because my salutation to the Parameshthis is the only refuge to my Atma.
Alas! Is this Navakara a great extremely lustrous diamond? Is it Chintamani? Is it like the Kalpavruksha? No, the Navakara is far superior to it. The Chintamani etc. constitute the causes of happiness only in this life, while the Supreme Mantra that it is, the Navakara endows man with Svarga and Apavarga. It yields genuine happiness to the Atma in all births till liberation is obtained.
O Atma! uprooting a mountain from its very base is not difficult; joys of the celestial worlds are not so very difficult to come across. Difficult indeed is the acquirement of Navakara in all sincerity and emotion. Jivas with poor merit can never master the Navakara in this mundane existence. This Bhava-Namaskara causes the destruction of numberless sorrows. This Navakara is like Kamadhenu in giving all joys and happiness in this and the higher worlds. O Atma! therefore, mutter this Mantra in all veneration.
O mind! O friend! I submit and tell in all prayers and tell repeatedly that I shall not become careless in my
