254 Aptavani-2
You are a Jain so you must be reciting the Navkar Mantra, right?
Questioner: Yes, I recite it everyday.
Dadashri: Then you must not be having any external difficulties, do you?
Questioner: Difficulties are inevitable in the worldly life.
Dadashri: Who passes the sentence of judgment, the Judge or his clerk?
Questioner: The Judge.
Dadashri: Navkar Mantra too needs to be given by a‘ Judge’. Do you recite the Navkar mantra with an understanding or without it? How can you buy ghee if you do not know what it is? Then the shopkeeper will sell you something else altogether. Mantra given by a Gnani Purush will give exact results. If one recites the Trimantra as given by‘ us’, his worldly obstacles will be removed; he will remain in dharma and it is also possible for him to attain moksha.
Reciting the mantra,‘ Sarva Sadhubhyam Namah’( I bow to all the sadhus) or the Navkar Mantra does not reach the right target. Today, Navkar( the Panch Parmeshtis) do not exist here. Today the ones who become Self realized through‘ our’ Gnan fall in the category of Navkar. Otherwise, the obeisance in the Navkar reaches other universes. That is why the Navkar Mantra has to be recited. The Navkar Mantra you recite does not reach these( worldly) acharyas because they believe,‘ I am an acharya.’
Questioner: If I recite the Navkar Mantra in my mind, does it automatically reach the Panch Parmeshti Bhagwants?
Dadashri: Navkar Mantra is such that it will reach to whomever you desire to pay obeisance to.
So many people recite the Navkar Mantra and yet they