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7. A True Jain’s Prayer

Everyday while doing Chaityavandana, we recite the Jaya
Viyaraya Sootra which says, “Dukhkhao, Kammakkhao…
sampajjau.” It means that we pray to Almighty to eliminate
our sorrows. Which are these sorrows ? Are we asking for the
removal of the sorrows of poverty, calamity, slavery, etc. ?
No, we pray to God for the elimination of our soul’s sorrows
of sensual desires and passionate feelings of anger, greed, etc.
We want these sorrows to be eliminated. Because these are the
real sorrows which are troubling the soul since times eternal.
Also, it is evident that many a times, we are not afflicted by
poverty or slavery but the unquenchable thirst for sensual
desires keeps us disturbed. Thus, these are the major sorrows
which troubles the soul and hence need to removed.

A true Jain householder is constantly worried about this, “If
I do not eliminate these soul’s sorrows even after acquiring
the great Jinshasan, then what will be my soul’s state in the
next births ?

Thus, a true Shravaka is constantly worried about his next
births. His vision is focused on,

 I do not want to surrender to sensual pleasures and
vicious feelings and thus carry forward its negative
effects in the next birth.

 The prime importance of this human birth is to
eliminate these soul’s sorrows by way of non-violence,
forgiveness, penance, etc.
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