Bhagavana Mahavira

SR No.: 002027
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chauthmal Maharaj
Publisher: Jainoday Pustak Prakashan Samiti Ratlam
Publication Year: 1942
Total Pages: 630
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Story, & Biography
File Size: 12 MB

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towards his feet. He asked her to take her seat whereupon the queen seated herself near the king. Then the king asked her why she had come at such an unusual time and in reply the queen related to him the whole story about her vision of fourteen dreams. Siddhartha was very much pleased to hear this news. He began to praise his fortune and plunged himself in deep contemplation in order to make out the meaning of the dreams.
After a while when he raised his head, he said to his wife in a sweet voice. “My dear lady, these dreams donote peace and prosperity to the kingdom. On the completion of the period of your pregnancy, you will bear a child who would be glorious, righteous, an incarnation of non-violence and renunciation.” The heart of Trishla began to dance with delight to hear these words, she took leave of her husband and came back to her own bed-chamber. There she did not go to sleep again, but passed the rest of night in meditation and in performing religious rites. After seeing auspicious dreams, if a man goes to sleep and, by chance sees a bad dream, he forfeits the right to taste the fruit of his auspicious dream thereby. Trishala, therefore, deliberately avoided to sleep that night again.
Jain scriptures say that a king ought to perform his daily routine before going to worship the Lord. He must take his bath every day and before taking bath he must have taken some exercise. This shows that about 2500 years ago taking physical exercise was in great vogue in India. How. ever, as soon as the day dawned Siddhartha got up from his bed as usual, performed his daily routine duties, and then went to gymnasium where he took a good deal of exercise