PRAYERS FOR PEACE                                                                                       Thursday, October 18, 2001

Jain Prayer for peace

                          Peace and Universal Love is the essence
                                    of the Gospel preached by all
                                                      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 cause of
all miseries in the world.
Violence, in fact, 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can always be superseded by a superior one;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, however, be superior to

non-violence and love.

The immortal song 

1. May the sacred stream of amity flow forever in my heart. 

May the universe prosper -- such is my cherished desire.   

2. May my heart sing with ecstasy at the sight of the virtuous, 

and may my life be an offering at their feet.   

3. May my heart bleed at the sight of the wretched, the cruel, 

the irreligious, and my tears of compassion flow from my eyes.   

4. May I always be there to show the path to the pathless wanderers of life. 

Yet if they should not hearken to me, may I bide in patience.