Ratna Karand Shravakachar

The Ratna Karanda Śrāvakāchāra

March 10, 2023jambudweepRatna Karand Shravakachar

The Ratna Karanda Śrāvakāchāra (The Householder's Dharma) ''Ratna Karanda Śrāvakāchāra'' is a work of great authority on Jainism. It is possessed of exceptional merit, and contains, within its 150 verses, the gist of the entire Canon on the householder’s dharma (conduct). The sacred text was composed by, Acharya Samantabhadra, a famous Jaina Saint, said to...

07. Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part VII)

March 4, 2023jambudweepRatna Karand Shravakachar

The eleven Pratimas (Part VII) Seventh part of the Ratna Karanda Sravakachara is descriptive of "The eleven Pratimas'' The Tirthankara, has described the stages in a householder’s ‘ life ’ to be eleven in number, each subsequent one of which, rising by degrees, naturally includes all the attributes developed in those preceding it.

06. The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part VI)

February 3, 2023jambudweepRatna Karand Shravakachar

The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part VI) SALLEKHANA PART VI उपसर्गे दुर्भिक्षे जरसि रुजायां च निःप्रतीकारे।धर्माय तनुविमोचनमाहुः सल्लेखनामार्याः।।१२२।। The most excellent of men describe the giving up of the body (ghost) on the arrival of unavoidable calamity, distress, senescence and disease, with a view of increase of spiritual merit, as sallekhana. Explanation – Sallekhana – death...

05. The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part V)

February 3, 2023jambudweepRatna Karand Shravakachar

The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part V) SIKSHA VRATAS PART V देशावकाशिकं वा सामयिकं प्रोषघोपवासो वा।वैयावृत्यं शिक्षा व्रतानि चत्वारि शिष्टानि।।९१।। Desavakasika, samayika, prosadhaopavasa and vaiyavrita, these four are known as siksha vows. देशावकाशिकं स्यात्कालपरिच्छेदनेन देशस्य।प्रत्यहमणुव्रतानां प्रतिसंहारो विशालस्य।।९२।। Limiting the sphere of one's activity still further from day to day and for fixed periods within the larger...

04. The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part IV)

February 3, 2023jambudweepRatna Karand Shravakachar

The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part IV) The Guna Vratas दिग्व्रतमनर्थदण्डव्रतं च भोगोपभोगपरिमाणम्।अनुबृंहणाद्गुणनामाख्यन्ति गुणव्रतान्यार्याः।।६७।। Because the dig, the anarthananda and the bhogopabhoga parimana vratas (vows) tend to increase virtue (i.e., the merit of the five ana vratas), great personages have called them guna vratas. दिग्वलयं परिगणितं कृत्वातोऽहं बहिर्न यास्यामि।इति सङ्कल्पो दिग्व्रत मामृत्यणुपापविनिवृत्यै।।६८।। I shall not travel...

03. The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part III)

February 3, 2023jambudweepRatna Karand Shravakachar

The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part III) Necessity For The Adoption Of Right Conduct मोहतिमिरापहरणे दर्शनलाभादवाप्तसंज्ञानः।रागद्वेषनिवृत्र्ये चरणं प्रतिपद्यते साधुः।।४७।। To whom Right Knowledge has accrued by virtue of the ac¬quisition of Right Faith, on the destruction of the darkness of faith obstructing infatuation, that excellent soul begins to practise the rules of Right Conduct, to be...

02. The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part II)

February 3, 2023jambudweepRatna Karand Shravakachar

The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part II) Characteristics Of Right Knowledge अन्यून मनतिरिक्तं याथातथ्यं विना च विपरीतात्।निःसदेहं वेद यदाहुस्त ज्ञानमागमिनः।।४२।। That which reveals the nature of things neither insufficiently, nor with exaggeration, nor falsely, but exactly as it is, and with certainty, that the knowers of Scripture call Right Knowledge. प्रथमानुयोगर्थाख्यानं चरितं पुराणमपि पुण्यम्।बोधिसमाधिनिधानं बोधति बोधः...

01. The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara (Part I)

February 3, 2023jambudweepRatna Karand Shravakachar

The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara PART I नमः श्रीवर्धमानाय निर्धूतकलिलात्मने। सालोकानां त्रिलोकानां यदिृद्या दर्पणायते।।१।। I bow to Sri Vardhaman Mahavira, who has washed off all the impurities of sin i.e. karmas from His soul and whose knowledge reflects i.e., embraces the entire lokaloka. देशयामि समीचीनं धर्मंकर्मनिबर्हणम्। संसारदुःखतः सत्त्वान्यो धरत्युत्तमे सुखे।।२।। Which frees souls from the pain...

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