Pearls of Jaina Wisdom

SR No.: 001668
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dulichand Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 368
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & Religion
File Size: 16 MB

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Pearls of Jaina Wisdom
Fasting for two days : twelve times. Fasting for three days : two hundred and nineteen times. Fasting for fifteen days : seventy-two times. Fasting for thirty days : twelve times. Fasting for forty-five days : two times. Fasting for sixty days : six times. Fasting for seventy-five days : two times. Fasting for ninety days : two times. Fasting for one hundred and twenty days : nine times. Fasting for one hundred and seventy-five days : one time. Fasting for one hundred and eighty days : one time. Bhadra pratimā - two days fast : one time. Mahābhadra pratimā — four days fast: one time. Sarvatobhadra pratimā — ten days fast : one time.
( The last three are special types of rigorous meditation with fastings ). The Enlightenment
During the thirteenth year, Śramana Mahāvīra reached 'Jambhiyagrāma' on the banks of the river, Rjubālukā. With the permission of a house-holder Syāma, Mahāvīra began to meditate under a huge Sāla tree. He was meditating in the Godohika (milking ) posture facing the sun. It was the tenth day of the bright half of Vaişākha month. After fasting for two and half days, taking not even water, engaged in deep meditation, he reached the highest state of omniscience and attained infinite knowledge, infinite intuition, infinite energy and infinite bliss.
"Now the venerable ascetic Mahāvīra became a Jina ( conqueror ), an Arhat ( worthy of worship ) and a Kevali ( omniscient), comprehending all objects. He became the twenty-fourth Tirthankara of the present era ( Kalpa-sūtra, 121 ). Mahāvira's Career as a Tirthankara
After attaining omniscience, Sramana Bhagāvana Mahāvīra began to preach and give sermons. But always he wandered from