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Hinduism - Jainism Prayers

The Beauty of This Path:

For me, the motto of Jainism perfectly expresses the beauty of their path: "non-violence in thoughts, words, and actions is the highest religion." The essence of non-violence is restraint: "restraint of mind" (thinking loving thoughts), "restraint of tongue" (saying kind words) and "restraint of body" (doing loving actions and not doing unloving actions). "Violence is the knot of bondage" to karma and the only things can untie the karmic knot are "nonviolence and love" and the desire for peace and enlightenment!

Prayer Index: Hinduism - Jainism Prayers

Prayer for Peace #1
Prayer for Peace #2
Prayer of Worship

Prayer for Forgiveness
Prayer for Compassion
Prayer to Heal the Past

Prayer for Peace #1

Lead me from Death to Life, from Falsehood to Truth.
Lead me from Despair to Hope, from Fear to Trust.
Lead me from Hate to Love, from War to Peace.
Let Peace fill our Heart, our World, our Universe.

Prayer for Peace #2

Peace and Universal Love is the essence of the Gospel preached by all the Enlightened Ones. The Lord has preached that equanimity is the Dharma.

Forgive do I creatures all, and let all creatures forgive me. Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity. Know that violence is the root of all miseries in the world.

Violence is the knot of bondage. "Do not injure any living being." This is the eternal, perennial, and unalterable way of spiritual life. A weapon, howsoever powerful it may be, can always be superseded by a superior one; but no weapon can be superior to nonviolence and love.

Prayer of Worship

Lord! In praying to you, I violate the restraint of tongue!
In remembering you, I violate the restraint of mind!
In prostrating to you, I violate the restraint of body!
I vow ever to pray to you, remember you,
and to prostrate myself before you!

Prayer for Forgiveness

All that we ought to have thought and have not thought,
All that we ought to have said, and have not said,
All that we ought to have done, and have not done,
All that we ought not to have thought and yet have thought,
All that we ought not to have said, and yet have said,
All that we ought not to have done, and yet have done,
For thoughts, words, and works, pray we, O God, for your forgiveness.

Prayer for Compassion

I need to be forgiven, God, so many times a day.
So often do I slip and fall, Be merciful I pray!
Help me not to be critical, when other's faults I see;
For so many times, O God, The same faults are in me.

Prayer to Heal the Past

O love unspeakable and full of glory, whose majesty is not to destroy, but to save, save us from ourselves. Our past relentlessly pursues us. Days that we thought dead live over again; deeds that we deemed buried meet us on the way, be Thou our defense, O our God! Fill up that which our lives have left behind.

Undo that which we have done amiss. Repair the places we have wasted, bind the hearts we have wounded. Dry the eyes we have flooded. Make the evil we have done work for good, although we would not know it.

Take up our yesterdays with thine own golden light and transform them. Let us know with joyful surprise how ever against our wills, we were laboring together with Thee... so our former selves find us no more.