Hansa And Vinod Sutaria Cleveland

Hansa and Vinod Sutaria Cleveland, OH

JAIN RITUALS AND CEREMONIES
Introduction..................................................................................................................... 2 Six Essentials: ................................................................................................................. 2 1. Samayik: ............................................................................................................. 2 2. Chaturvimsati: ......................................................................................................... 3 3. Vandan:................................................................................................................... 5 4. Pratikraman: ............................................................................................................
At times it looks these words are interchangeable but there is definite difference which is very important. Samta is always present during samayik, but samayik may not be present when someone is in sambhav. Samta is first step in samayik and complete purity of soul is the end result of samayik. Every moment in our life is undulating (visham). Any difficult situation or even an ordinary event makes us very uncomfortable yet we are not aware of it. If we think carefully, soon we will know, our whole life consists of reactions to things, people and circumstances. When one begins a samayik the first condition is to make oneself balanced, i.e. to remain in samata. Nonviolence- In samayik, for 48 minutes, we take vow to keep away from any activity, which creates violence. Here it is not an apparent violence but any activity connected to Kashays. Passions will certainly hurt others will injure our own soul as well. One can achieve kashay-free state, only when balanced state is existent. What is this samayik after all? The word is related to word ‘Samay’-time. Lord Mahavir uses word samay for Atma. Samayik means, for that much time to remain in Atma_which is very rich with joy. This way our Chetana or Conscious stabilizes in time (i.e. kaal)-only present time, here past and future both are absorbed. Past is memory and future is imagination. When conscious gets stabilize in present time, it starts fading kashayas; and this is state
By nature, Jiv every now and then, gets carried away on wrong path. Every morning and evening, find out some time, think and come back. If one cannot perform every evening try every fifteenth day-a special thinking, turn back as much as one can. If that is not possible another chance once every forth month. Finally, at least once year, one should examine, am I on wrong path? Walk back. When soul is making progress in spiritual development (gun-sthanak); initially thinks about this life and then about past lives and he/she makes efforts to turn back; reaching closure to final goal. 5. Kayotsarg: This is the last of essentials, usually Kayotsarg is part of samayik- pratikraman and chaitya vandan, and it is done repeatedly. The time period for Kayotsarg is decided along with number of breath. Breathing is survival line for life, (Pran) out of ten prans, swas (breathing) is most important, if it breaks life ends as well. On one side, Kayotsarg is connected to swas- Pram and on the other side, it is connected to Navkar Mantra or Loggas. This way, in Kayotsarg, we recite mantra. Whenever we recite mantras Navkar or Loggas, it brings the picture of the objects in that sutra e.g. When we say Namo Arihantanam try to see tirthankar in Samosaran with eight pratigarya, Chauvisampi Jinvara, remember 24 tirthankars, who are free from life, disease, old age, death and so on. When Kayotsarg is done