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8. And The Lamp of Life Became Effulgent An incident in England of the Great Power of the Mahamantra that is Shri Namaskara
- Dr. Suresh Jhaveri We read of this incident in the "Akhand Jyot”, procured the address of Dr. Sureshbhai Jhaveri and corresponded with him. As a result of this, his lectures were arranged at Dadar, Nalasopara and Dombivali with ourselves in the chair. On hearing the lectures so many Atmas got themselves associated in the regular propitiation of the Navakara Mahamantra. To-day he is Hon. Secretary to the "Akhil Bharatiya Hinsa Nivaran Sandh”, Ahmedabad. Here, his lecture is given with all thanks to him.
-Editor The Navakara Mahamantra diverted Dr. Jhaveri (M. D.), a heart specialist from strong materialism to the highest spiritualism. On 26-2-75 during the Upadhana tapa, he delivered a lecture for about an hour in the morning. He spoke on the real glory of the Namaskara Mahamantra in romantic style and revealed how, thanks to its blessed glory, he became a propitiator of the Jaina order. The lecture is given here almost verbatim. This was edited systematically by Shri Shantilal Mehta of Rajkot, with the sacred intention of steadying the faith of meritorious Atmas who are propitiators.
-Editors Thanks to the favour of gods and my preceptors, I have been enabled to take to the very difficult dharma of detachment and have been saved from the dangerous
