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JAIN RAMAYAN
perturbed, serene and still deeply absorbed in their meditation. Those terrible impediments and dreadful calamities did not disturb them even to the least extent.
Some of the heavenly beings assumed the form of ferocious lions and pounced upon them, intent upon tearing them to pieces and crushing them in their dreadful jaws. The lions roared and growled with their hair standing on their ends and bristling with wildness and ferocity. Within the twinkling of an eye, they held the princes in their dreadful claws. Yet they remained calm and serene like the Pacific ocean.
The heavenly beings assumed the form of ferocious wolves; and pounced upon the youngsters, intent upon tearing off their tender bodies with their deadly claws. But they could not even touch them.
Then, they assumed the forms of such harmful creatures of the forest, as tom-cats, rats, scorpions and other piosonous creatures and tried their best to disturb their meditation. But all their efforts were, in vain. They were bitterly frustrated. The princes were so absolutely firm and motionless in their proximity to the Mantra devatas the great deities that can bestow tremendously efficacious boons, that they were totally unaware of what was happening around them in the outer world.
Even to attain physical and materialistic pleasures and prosperity, people have to work with tremendous concentration and determination; and when that is so, those who aim at the attainment of supernatural and otherworldly accomplishments have to possess superhuman determination and concentration. Those who feel agitated and disturbed by impediments and who are daunted by calamities cannot attain any worldly or other worldly objectives. Actually, one can attain prosperity or supernatural powers only by bearing with such impediments and calamities with an unflinching determination and concentration.
Anadrut was wild with rage; and transgressed all limits. When all his attempts to disturb the meditation of the princes failed he felt bitterly humilitated; and it became a question of prestige and self-respect for him. He was not willing to admit
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| SR No. | 002021 |
| Book Title | Jain Ramayana Part 1 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Bhadraguptasuri |
| Publisher | Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana |
| Publication Year | 2000 |
| Total Pages | 452 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Mythology, & Story |
| File Size | 21 MB |