Jain Ramayana Part 2

SR No.: 002022
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 518
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 23 MB

Page 67

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The lioness leaped over them; seized at once the emaciated body of Sukoshal in its claws. On account of its sudden attack, Sukoshal muni fell on the ground like a tree that had been cut off; but his soul had become merged with the Parambramha.
The lioness tore off his body limb by limb.
It sucked out all his hot blood.
It cut his body into pieces and ate away his flesh piece by piece.
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What a terrible mockery of fate this is! The same lioness was once his mother, the very image of affection and the goddess who showered sweet love upon him. She had once grown mad with her attachment for her son. She was the woman who had given birth to him and suckled him but now she was madly raging in the form of that lioness intent upon taking revenge against him. The mother who had once fondled him in her lap and had bathed him with the sweet waters of affection was now intent upon cutting him into pieces and devouring them. The mother who had once kissed the skin of her son and had embraced him affectionately was now taking a diabolical delight in peeling off his skin into pieces. This is the samsar. This is the attachment which brings about such terrible consequences. That is why, the enlightened people are intent, upon breaking all attachments of samsar.
We should not, impelled by the attachments of the samsar even by a mistake act unwisely and cause harm and injustice to any jiva. This broad-mindedness delivers the enlightened people from the bondages of the samsar.
When Sukoshal who had cut off all his attachments for his body was being torn into pieces by the lioness when his body was being torn and devoured by the lioness, he rose from the level of Dharmadhyan to the level of Shukladhyan. As a result of this, all his most harmful (gathikarmas) were burnt in the fires of meditation and the agathi (harmful) karmas also perished. His soul attained perfection and occupied a place among the Siddhabhagwans.