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Punishment For Insulting Namokar Mantra [[File:W3.JPG]] STUDENT: Sir, please tell me why the king is putting his feet on the auspicious verse (Namokar Mantra)? TEACHER: Emperor Subhoum Chakravarti was the ruler of the six Khands of the universe. A stellar divine (Jyotishk Dev) wanted to kill him out of enemity but he could not do…

Method Of Devdarshan While entering the gate of the temple, one should utter in loud voice: - OM JAI JAI JAI, NIHSAHI NIHSAHI NIHSAHI’ NAMOSTU NAMOSTU NAMOSTU After standing before the idol of True Divine, you should pronounce with folded hands- NAMO ARIHANTANAM , NAMO SIDDHANAM , NAMO AYERIYANAM , NAMO UVAJJHAYANAM , NAMO LOE...

Three Universe Universe is divided in three parts- 1. Upper part is called Urdhva Lok. It consists of sixteen Heavens, nine Graveyaks, nine Anudish & five Anuttars. On the top is Siddhashila (the salvation point). 2. Middle part is called Madhya Lok. It consists of numerous islands & oceans. The first island is Jamboodweep in...

Punishment For Humililating Saints’ [[File:Punishment_2.JPG]] Once a group of saints (Chaturvidh Sangh) comprising of Muni, Aryika, Shravak, Shravika was passing through a village called ‘Antik’. They were going to Sammed Shikharji. On seeing the nude (naked) saints, all people of the village began to laugh and humiliated them. One Potter even asked them not to…

Reward For Devotion To Spiritual Saints After the holy death (Samadhi) of Shrutkevli Shri Bhadra Bahu, his disciple Maurya Emperor Chandragupt, as a Jain saint lived and worshipped the consecrated feet of his Spiritual Teacher for twelve years in the jungle, with the result that the deities established a city there and served food to...

Punishment For Insulting The Idol Of God(True Divine) Once upon a time Queen Kankodari,who was proud of being the Emperoress got angry with her step queen. She got a Jain idol brought from the temple of her step queen and threw it out in the open. On the advice of Aryika Sanyam Shree the queen...

Reward For Devotion To True Divine Once upon a time a frog took a petal of lotus in its mouth; with great pleasure it started its journey for the darshan of Lord Mahavir. In the way it was trodden under the foot of the elephant of King Shrenik.It died with holy thought and was born...

Qualities Of True Divine True divine: he who is free from all attachment & malice (Veetragi), has infinite knowledge (Sarvagya), gentle in speech (Hitopdeshi) and known as Arhant, Tirthankar or Jinendra. TRUE SCRIPTURE: Which is preached by the Worthy Soul, written & taught by the spiritual teachers (preceptors) is the true scripture. It is pure...

Characteristic Of Senses (Indriyas) A worldly being is recognized by the senses he/she has. There are five kinds of sense organs (Indriyas) : 1. Body (Sparshan)  2. Tongue (Rasna) 3. Nose (Ghran) 4. Eyes (Chakshu) 5. Ears (Karna)   By touching which, qualities like light, heavy , cold, hot etc. are known is called Body...

Kinds Of Living Beings (SOULS) There are two kinds of living beings (souls)- 1) Worldly souls 2) Liberated souls I am a worldly being, cycling the universe and suffering the miseries of deaths and births.I am bound by all eight Karmas, therefore I am a worldly being. Human, Divines (Deities), Hellish beings (Narkis) and animals,...