“Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.”- Jack Kornfield.
“Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.”- Jack Kornfield.
Bhaktamar (‘Bakth’ + ‘Amar’) is a very popular Stotra among Jains, daily recited in so many families. It is supposed that every verse of this Stotra has the power of Mantra and is helpful in getting the dreams materialized.According to Jain scriptures, Acharya Mantungacharyaji, a Jain muni, wrote Bhaktamar Stotra in Stuti (praise) of Lord Adinath. He wrote this in prison, as he was put behind bars by Raja Bhoj for not showing his mystic powers. Such was the power of his Bhaktamar shlokas that each of the forty eight prison locks unlocked miraculously one by one as he completed writing the Stotras.
All the chains fell away as the guards and the king found Acharya Mantungacharyaji sitting under a tree.The 48 Bhaktamar stotras have healing powers and are used for a variety of purposes. Out of these, around fifty percent of stotras deal with health issues. These range from the removal of headaches, curing of eye diseases and eyesight, leprosy, skin diseases including all types of abdominal pains, diarrhea, all kinds of gastro-intestinal tract diseases, curing of infertility, prevention of premature abortions, prevention and cure of cancer, improper functioning of kidneys, problems with spinal cord etc .
Some Bhaktamar stotras refer to worldly issues like getting a job or wanting a promotion in a job, abundance in terms of wealth- e.g. clearing of debts, having more prosperity and being successful etc. Yet other stotras refer to the removal of all types of fears like fear of theft, bankruptcy, death and other emotional issues. Finally, some stotras deal with turbulences created by the spirit world.