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pable of tolerating the greatest discomforts and harassments. Even if the Kāla-cakra is thrown on their head, they do not die.
2. Since they have the greatest physical strength, they have the greatest mental strength because only a sound body can have a sound mind (mana). That is the reason why men in Vajrarṣabhanārāca cannot be diverted from dhyāna, i.e. meditation even by gods.
3. Dhyāna is concentration of mind, speech and body. Therefore, they have a strong body and strong mind, can have superior type of dhyānal meditation and a superior type of spiritual state.
4. The greater the rise of auspicious karma of a soul, the greater the bioelectromagnetic energy. Tirthankaras have the best and most distinctly meritorious Tirthankara nāma-karma accumulated by them in the penultimate (immediately preceding the last) birth by virtue of their auspicious acts and auspicious thoughts. That karma and karmas related to it very strongly come into rise and therefore, they have the most powerful bio-electromagnetic energy.
5. Since they are Tirthankaras, perhaps no inauspicious karma come into rise and therefore their related karmas raise no obstacles to their bioelectromagnetic energy.
6. There are chiefly four types of karma that veil and obstruct the infinite qualities of the soul namely, (1) knowledge obscuring (2) darśana obscuring, (3) infatuating and (4) obstructing karmas. The omniscient souls are perfectly free from these karmas.They, therefore, experience the infinite qualities and energy of soul.
In all the six ways shown above, the greatest/ highest energy of the omniscient Tirtharkara manifests in the largest quantity. This energy is in the form of subtle bio-electromagnetic energy. It is believed that since the earth cannot bear the burden of this highest energy, Tirthankara walks by putting his feet on the golden lotus. But this is not the fact. This energy tremendously energizes the atmosphere. Human beings and other animals can not catch this energy. If at all they do so, they are probably harmed rather than helped. In order to enable men to make the best use of the greatest energy of Tirthankara for a long time, gods create golden lotus flowers to pull down into the earth, the superior type of bio-electromag
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