worldly attachments

The preaching of every religion is same in the notion that they are aimed at betterment of living, especially soul and destruction of the evils that a soul faces. Every being is seen as a spiritual entity. The navkar mantra is one of the best of mantras and one of the most powerful of all the mantras. As a Jain, every person ought to find a way to liberate his soul from the worldly attachments, the longing for enrichment in any physical entity is considered a worldly attachment, and the 'Navkar Mantra' offers exactly that. It's obvious that the navkar mantra is to be felt by the soul when one recites it.

Navkar Mantra: The soul recites!

The knowledge of the linguistic meaning of the Navkar Mantra does not do you any good; it's the soul that has to feel the Navkar mantra. Initially you are bowing to the Arihantas (souls liberated from worldly attachments) with respect felt so atomically by your soul. These are the souls who have mastered the liberation art, liberating themselves from the world.

Next step of navkar mantra soul bows and respects the siddhas, who have liberated themselves completely from the earth, even feelings of beginning or end of life. By bowing to these souls you command your soul to follow their path, with selflessness.

Through the Navkar mantra you offer your respectful bow to the acharyas, who command the spiritual prosperity in this world. Then it's the Upadhyayas, forerunners of sadhus and sadhvis (the souls in the people that have detached from family life and carried onto a new lease of life with great spiritual specifics) that the nakar mantra respects, makes your soul respect.

Ultimately what the Navkar mantra does is to enforce the strong feeling that these bowing must have the impact that sins erased from your soul, evils removed and soul free of any constraints. So finally Navkar mantra acknowledges itself of the service it has offered you and salutes itself as one of the best mantras to take you closer as a jain towards the path of becoming siddha.

Navkar mantra is the bowing to the greater souls, helps you get rid of the evils in the soul as the soul in itself realizes the greatness in the leaders. We have the step towards liberating ourselves from these worldly advantages as the Navkar Mantra makes the soul realize that. Through Navkar Mantra, the soul becomes pure, the person realizes happiness, and not the happiness got from worldly pleasures, but true happiness that is unlike anything felt before. This in turn makes the person move forward in the path aimed by every Jain, towards reaching the Siddha stature.