(Reciting beads with Mantras and meditation)
Besides reciting with devotion the Navkar Mantra, one
must recite some special hymns that can ennoble and purify life and must,
in accordance with the prescribed methods, meditate on the essential form
of the soul. Such a meditation offers the soul a peace and bliss. It is
only by means of this meditation the mind acquires firmness; and the
actual life acquires the right direction. The being a Jain becomes
meaningful only if one gives a place in his life to all these things fully
or partially. The life of a Jain does not become a live force merely on
account of his birth in a Jain family. One must make one’s life permeated
with dharma to make one’s life meaningful.