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Jain Siddhant Praveshika   Beginner    
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The Essence Of Jainism

Gurudev Kanji Swami:

 
Siddh che te jarnanaar-dekhnaar che. Tem tu parn jarnanaar-dekhnaar j cho. Adhura purano prashna j nathi. Jarnanaar-dekhnaarthi jarik khasyo aaetle kartutvamanj gayo. Aaetle siddhothi joodo padyo. Aaek xarn siddhthi joodo pade te mithyadrasti che. Te yatharth vaat che.
(Purusharthprernamurti Pujya Gurudev - first thing every morning Lalchandbhai used to pray to Gurudev and remember this quotation)



Even in the object-knowing state, that knowledge transition is being known as the knower, therefore that which is known, is not that object, but the knower is being known in that (state).
(Pujya Gurudev - Front cover of Atmadharm July 1999, Front Cover)



Gneyakar avasthama pan te gnaannu parinaman gnayakpanay janay che matay jey janai che te chij nahi pan tema jarnaro janai che.
(Purusharthprernamurti Pujya Gurudev - Atmadharm, July 1999, Front Cover)



Lalchandbhai Amarchand Modi:

  I am a knower, I am not a doer.
The knower is being known, in reality nothing else is being known.


Hu jananar chu, hu karnar nathi.
Jananaro janay che,
kharekhar par janatu nathi.

Lalchandbhai described this as the essence of all Jainism.


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