- by 108 Swami Sri Samantabhadra Acharya

- Interpretations by Late Sri Champat Rai Jain, Barrister-at-Law

Jai Jinendra!

Chaturmas is a period where in the Jain ascetics and their followers follow the principle of non violence strictly by staying in a single place for a period of four months. The travel from place to place is forbidden in view of the generation and propagation of the religion. The animate elements like the plants and the creatures emanate in excess during this period. The nature unravels its inherent beauty and which shrines in a state of tranquility. The plants and flowers blossom with full blown picture. A pellucid environment will be created.

It is a unique time suggesting the conduction of religious assemblies for the followers and study the religion in its depth. It spreads from Ashad to Karthik months. It is during this month that the Jain ascetics make an in depth study of many Jain religious books and along with this many pravachans of the ascetics based on the religious books are conducted on a daily basis with an intention of educating the shravakas about the Jain principles and the local Jain samaj's take active role in making this chaturmas a grand success and making way for the propagation of the Jain religion.

Like wise, with my self being located at Mysore I happen to have a discussion with the Jain Samaj of Mysore about the preparations for the Chaturmas of Acharya 108 Sri Kumudanandiji Maharaj at Mysore, we felt of requesting His Holiness Acharya Sri to conduct regular pravachans on "Ratnakarandaka Shravakachara" popularly called as the Jaina House Holder's Code Of Conduct or The Jain Way of Life (JWOL) suggested for the Shravakas (House Holders) written by 108 Swami Samantabhadra Acharya. On my further discussions on the availability of English literature of this book in the form of interpretations with Sri Vishwasenji of Mysore, he assured me to get a book containing the interpretations in English. Latter I began to give a serious thought of posting these interpretations on our website WWW.JAINHERITAGECENTRES.COM periodically during the Jain Chaturmas - 2006 from the day of beginning of the Chaturmas (10th July, 2006) till its conclusion (22nd October, 2006) and started planning through some discussions with my father Dr.H.A.Parshwanath (Mysore), Dr. C. Devakumar (Delhi) and Yogesh Jain (Delhi) about having the postings on the internet. Their response was very encouraging and guided me on its planning. The support I received from Sri Vishwasenji and Yogesh Jain deserves a special mention here. Also the support from Sri M.R.Sunil Kumar of Mysore and the Chaturmas Samiti of the Jain Samaj Mysore motivated our team to take up this task. 

The main intention behind picking up this task was to make the Jains and Jain lovers on the internet to have a real feel of the Chaturmas and also to propagate the Jain Way Of Life prescribed for the house holders. The original book Ratnakarandaka Shravakachara  has been written by 108 Swami Samantabhadra Acharya in 2nd century A.D. (approximately 2000 years ago). This book encompassing a total of 150 shlokas describes the duties of a Shravaka who is a real Jain trying to follow the way shown by his Guru & to reach the condition of liberation, a real happiness. The book was translated and published into English by Late Barister Sri Champat Rai Jain in 1917 A.D. along with his 'Preface' and 'Introduction'. This book in English was republished in 2004 by Pujya Shree Kanjiswami Smarak Trust. The postings here will be taken from this publication. We would like to acknowledge the publishers for coming out with such a valuable publication.

As already mentioned the book along with the preface and Introduction consists of 150 shlokas. Hence we plan to have the postings in the following order and splitting it into a total of 105 postings: Preface (1 posting), Introduction (about 20 postings) and latter the shlokas (about 2 shlokas a day for around 70 to 75 days). To the maximum extent possible we will make all attempts to maintain the regularity of the posting and would appreciate comments from your end for further improvements.

Thanking you,

NITIN H.P.

Director - www.jainheritagecentres.com

Mysore - 10th July 2006         

Complete RATNAKARANDAKA SHRAVAKACHARA

(A compilation of all the postings in a single document.)

POSTINGS

Post 2 - Introduction 1 - Posted on 11th July 2006

Post 3 - Introduction 2 - Posted on 12th July 2006

Post 4 - Introduction 3 - Posted on 13th July 2006

Post 5 - Introduction 4 - Posted on 14th July 2006

Post 6 - Introduction 5 - Posted on 15th July 2006

Post 7 - Introduction 6 - Posted on 16th July 2006

Post 8 - Introduction 7 - Posted on 17th July 2006

Post 9 - Introduction 8 - Posted on 18th July 2006

Post 10 - Introduction 9 - Posted on 19th July 2006

Post 11 - Introduction 10 - Posted on 20th July 2006

Post 12 - Introduction 11 - Posted on 21st July 2006

Post 13 - Introduction 12 - Posted on 22nd July 2006

Post 14 - Introduction 13 - Posted on 23rd July 2006

Post 15 - Introduction 14 - Posted on 24th July 2006

Post 16 - Introduction 15 - Posted on 25th July 2006

Post 17 - Introduction 16 - Posted on 26th July 2006

Post 18 - Introduction 17 - Posted on 27th July 2006

Post 19 - Introduction 18 - Posted on 28th July 2006

Post 20 - Introduction 19 - Posted on 29th July 2006

Post 21 - Introduction 20 - Posted on 30th July 2006

Post 22 - Introduction 21 - Posted on 31st July 2006

Post 23 - Introduction 22- Posted on 1st August 2006

Post 24 - Introduction 23 - Posted on 2nd August 2006

Post 25 - Introduction 24 - Posted on 3rd August 2006

SHLOKAS

Post 26 - Shlokas 1 & 2 - Posted on 4th August 2006

Post 27 - Shlokas 3 & 4 - Posted on 5th August 2006

Post 28 - Shlokas 5 & 6 - Posted on 6th August 2006

Post 29 - Shlokas 7 & 8 - Posted on 7th August 2006

Post 30 - Shloka 9 - Posted on 8th August 2006

Post 31 - Shlokas 10 & 11 - Posted on 9th August 2006

Post 32 - Shlokas 12 & 13 - Posted on 10th August 2006

Post 33 - Shlokas 14 & 15 - Posted on 11th August 2006

Post 34 - Shlokas 16 & 17 - Posted on 12th August 2006

Post 35 - Shlokas 18 - Posted on 13th August 2006

Post 36 - Shlokas 19 & 20 - Posted on 14th August 2006

Post 37 - Shlokas 21 & 22 - Posted on 15th August 2006

Post 38 - Shlokas 23 & 24 - Posted on 16th August 2006

Post 39 - Shlokas 25 & 26 - Posted on 17th August 2006

Post 40 - Shlokas 27 & 28 - Posted on 18th August 2006

Post 41 - Shlokas 29 & 30 - Posted on 19th August 2006

Post 42 - Shlokas 31 & 32 - Posted on 20th August 2006

Post 43 - Shlokas 33 & 34 - Posted on 21st August 2006

Post 44 - Shlokas 35 & 36 - Posted on 22nd August 2006

Post 45 - Shlokas 37 & 38 - Posted on 23rd August 2006

Post 46 - Shlokas 39 & 40 - Posted on 24th August 2006

Post 47 - Shloka 41 - Posted on 25th August 2006

Post 48 - Shlokas 42 & 43 - Posted on 26th August 2006

Post 49 - Shlokas 44 & 45 - Posted on 27th August 2006

Post 50 - Shloka 46 - Posted on 28th August 2006

Post 51 - Shlokas 47 & 48 - Posted on 29th August 2006

Post 52 - Shlokas 49 & 50 - Posted on 30th August 2006

Post 53 - Shlokas 51 & 52 - Posted on 31st August 2006

Post 54 - Shlokas 53 & 54 - Posted on 1st September 2006

Post 55 - Shlokas 55 & 56 - Posted on 2nd September 2006

Post 56 - Shlokas 57 & 58 - Posted on 3rd September 2006

Post 57 - Shlokas 59 & 60 - Posted on 4th September 2006

Post 58 - Shlokas 61 & 62 - Posted on 5th September 2006

Post 59 - Shlokas 63 & 64 - Posted on 6th September 2006

Post 60 - Shlokas 65 & 66 - Posted on 7th September 2006

Post 61 - Shlokas 67 & 68 - Posted on 8th September 2006

Post 62 - Shlokas 69 & 70 - Posted on 9th September 2006

Post 63 - Shlokas 71 & 72 - Posted on 10th September 2006

Post 64 - Shlokas 73 & 74 - Posted on 11th September 2006

Post 65 - Shlokas 75 & 76 - Posted on 12th September 2006

Post 66 - Shlokas 77 & 78 - Posted on 13th September 2006

Post 67 - Shlokas 79 & 80 - Posted on 14th September 2006

Post 68 - Shlokas 81 & 82 - Posted on 15th September 2006

Post 69 - Shlokas 83 & 84 - Posted on 16th September 2006

Post 70 - Shlokas 85 & 86 - Posted on 17th September 2006

Post 71 - Shloka 87 - Posted on 18th September 2006

Post 72 - Shlokas 88 & 89 - Posted on 19th September 2006

Post 73 - Shloka 90 - Posted on 20th September 2006

Post 74 - Shlokas 91 & 92 - Posted on 21st September 2006

Post 75 - Shlokas 93 & 94 - Posted on 22nd September 2006

Post 76 - Shlokas 95 & 96 - Posted on 23rd September 2006

Post 77 - Shlokas 97 & 98 - Posted on 24th September 2006

Post 78 - Shlokas 99 & 100 - Posted on 25th September 2006

Post 79 - Shlokas 101 & 102 - Posted on 26th September 2006

Post 80 - Shlokas 103 & 104 - Posted on 27th September 2006

Post 81 - Shlokas 105 & 106 - Posted on 28th September 2006

Post 82 - Shlokas 107 & 108 - Posted on 29th September 2006

Post 83 - Shlokas 109 & 110 - Posted on 30th September 2006

Post 84 - Shlokas 111 & 112 - Posted on 1st October 2006

Post 85 - Shlokas 113 & 114 - Posted on 2nd October 2006

Post 86 - Shlokas 115 & 116 - Posted on 3rd October 2006

Post 87 - Shlokas 117 & 118 - Posted on 4th October 2006

Post 88 - Shlokas 119 & 120 - Posted on 5th October 2006

Post 89 - Shlokas 121 - Posted on 6th October 2006

Post 90 - Shlokas 122 & 123 - Posted on 7th October 2006

Post 91 - Shlokas 124 & 125 - Posted on 8th October 2006

Post 92 - Shlokas 126 & 127 - Posted on 9th October 2006

Post 93 - Shlokas 128 & 129 - Posted on 10th October 2006

Post 94 - Shlokas 130 & 131 - Posted on 11th October 2006

Post 95 - Shlokas 132 & 133 - Posted on 12th October 2006

Post 96 - Shlokas 134 & 135 - Posted on 13th October 2006

Post 97 - Shlokas 136 & 137 - Posted on 14th October 2006

Post 98 - Shlokas 138 & 139 - Posted on 15th October 2006

Post 99 - Shlokas 140 & 141 - Posted on 16th October 2006

Post 100 - Shlokas 142 & 143 - Posted on 17th October 2006

Post 101 - Shlokas 144 & 145 - Posted on 18th October 2006

Post 102 - Shlokas 146 & 147 - Posted on 19th October 2006

Post 103 - Shlokas 148 & 149 - Posted on 20th October 2006

Post 104 - Shloka 150 - Posted on 21st October 2006

Our Special Thanks To: Sri Vishwasenji, Mysore & Chaturmas Samiti, Jain Samaj, Mysore.

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