![]() ![]() ![]() The next four are (6) Darshan ‘Right Faith’, (7) Gyan ‘Right Knowledge’, (8) Charitra ‘Right Conduct’, and (9) Tapa ‘Right Austerities’. In Nav Pad, (1) Arihant means the one who has conquered the inner enemies such as Anger, Greed, Ego and Deceit, (2) Siddha ‘liberated soul’, (3) Acharya ‘spiritual master’, (4) Upadhaya ‘spiritual teacher’, (5) Sadhu ‘monk’. The focus on these protectors makes the worldly benefits of the Siddhachakra more understandable and attractive. The second main component is the protective rings of deities. It has two main components: the first is the core, Nav Pad, which consists of circles 1 and 3, and this represents the standard (stand-alone) Siddhachakra, which is commonly used in Puja. The main section is in the form of an auspicious pitcher (kalash). He instructed them for the cure on how to perform the Siddhachakra Mahapuja (with a particular type of fasting ‘oli’ for a long period) which worked! The Yantra depicts the whole Jain Dharma, the principal nine elements (Nav Pad) and the protective deities. As the story goes, King Shripal was suffering from leprosy and married Mayanasundari who took him, together with 700 lepers, to a monk named Munichandra for the cure. According to the Jain tradition, they lived at the time of the 20th Tirthankar Munisuvarat Swami, who lived approximately 1.1 million years ago. Both of these efficacies are chartered by the King Shripal and Queen Mayanasundari story. The rationale behind performing this puja (worship) is usually either marital felicity or physical health alongside the karmic benefits of performing any Jain puja. When one worships the SiddhaChakra Yantra, one’s soul becomes liberated from karmic bondages. ‘Siddha' means liberated soul and 'chakra' means freedom from karmic bondages. The Siddhachakra Yantra is the most auspicious and most versatile mystical diagram in the Jain religion (See the schematic diagram given here). ![]()
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