Namo arihantanam namo namo
namo siddhanam namo namo
namo uvajjhayanam namo namo
namo loye savva sahunam namo namo
aeso panch nammukaro
om, shanti, shanti, shanti….

The mantra is so beautiful; it is going to be difficult to translate it, but I will do my best…or my worst. First listen to the mantra in its original beauty:

Namo arihantanam namo namo
namo siddhanam namo namo
namo uvajjhayanam namo namo
namo loye savva sahunam namo namo
aeso panch nammukaro
savva savv pavppanasano
mangalam cha savvesim padmam
havai mangalam
arihante sarnam pavjjami
siddhe sarnam pavyhyani
sahu sarnam pauhyanni
namo arihantanam namo namo
namo siddhanam namo namo
namo uvajjhayanam namo namo
om, shanti, shanti, shanti….

Now my effort at translation: “I go to the feet of, I bow down to, the arihantas….” Arihanta is the name in Jainism, as Bodhisattva is in Buddhism: “One who has achieved the ultimate but cares nothing about anybody else.” He has come home and turned his back on the world. He does not create a religion; he does not even preach; he does not even declare. Of course he has to be remembered first. The first remembrance is for all those who have known and remained silent. The first respect is not for words, but for silence. Not for serving others, but for the sheer achievement of one’s self. It does not matter whether one serves others or not; that is secondary, not primary. The primary is that one has achieved one’s self, and it is so difficult in this world to know one’s self.

Just this morning I gave Gudia a car sticker from California that says: “Warning! I brake for hallucinations.” This should be on every car – not only on cars, but on everybody’s buttocks too. People are living in hallucinations; that’s what their life is – an hallucination. They brake for ghosts which are not there…perhaps a holy ghost? But what does it matter whether the ghost is holy or unholy? All that matters is that it is not.

And what a stupidity! What a climax of stupidity to put a holy ghost into the Christian trinity: God, the Son, and the Holy Ghost! Just to avoid the woman they put a holy ghost in there. What unholiness! Do you see the trick? They could not put in the mother; they have painted out the mother and written in the Holy Ghost. This Holy Ghost has destroyed the whole of Christianity because from the very beginning, from its very foundation it depends on lies, hallucinations.