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say, “Why do I still have worries?” Alas! No one recites the true
Navkar Mantra! The persons you seek to address with your
Navkar Mantra are not deserving of that message, and the letter
you are sending is not really meant for them. If you mail a letter
to the wrong address, it will be forwarded to the office of ‘dead
letters’, and so your letter has been in vain and hence your
worries still remain intact. You have to decide, ‘may my Navkar
reach the real sadhus, the real acharya and the real upadhyaya
wherever they reside on this planet and in this universe.’ Your
Navkar needs to reach these three categories of people for sure.
It automatically reaches the Siddhas and the Arihants.
Questioner : Do you mean that the Navkar reaches
automatically?
Dadashri : Yes, it reaches automatically. Now when you
say Namo Arihantanum, you know that there is no Arihant Lord
on this planet of ours, so it reaches the Arihants wherever they
are, and Namo Siddhanum reaches the Siddha Lords, but it
reaches with the same intent with which you recite it.
You will have to understand all this. The meaning of the
Jain religion is to understand everything and to sing about it,
having understood everything. Narsinh Mehta was a poet who
lived in a subdivision amongst other Nagar (Brahmin) people.
Every morning he would get up early and sing devotional songs.
People would make fun of him; they would mimic his singing as
they brushed their teeth. One could hear the entire subdivision
mimicking him. That is why Narsinh said:
‘Maru gayoon je gaashey tey ghana goda khaashey, ney
samjii ne gaashey, to vaikunth jaashey.’
‘Those who sing whatever I sing will take a beating
And those who sing having attained the understanding will
go to Vaikunth – the heavenly abode of Lord Vishnu.’
Don’t try to imitate me, because you will suffer if you do.