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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the spiritual welfare of himself and of the world. This ideal object of the prince.led many thoughtful persons to despise there own life and the transitory pleasures of this world. They said to themselves," Oh, fie on us who are so much lured by the temptations of this world. We would gladly waste our life in vain hankering after material pleasures, but would never like to make the best use of it by accepting consecration. And this is the case when we have not enough even to maintain our lives and to live happily. While we are so anxious for acquiring material wealth, there is young Mahavira, who has spurned like a straw the measureless wealth and pleasures of the palace,and is impatient for consecration. He believes that the highest material pleasures are so many causes of karmic bondage he therefore wants to exchange them for self-control and abstinence of a true monk. After getting peace of mind and true knowledge of the self, he will guide the suffering humanity on its way to salvation. His life is really very praise worthy.” Such talks could now be heard in every home, and the result was that the rich and the poor all began to flock to his palace with the intention that they would get alms as also touch the feet of Lord Mahavira at one and the same time. The scriptures say that a thing received in charity from the hands of those great souls who are going to be Tirthankaras, is very lucky and auspicious. If the kings or capitalists receive it, and place it in their treasures they remain full for the next twelve years; they cannot diminish in any way. Similarly, it increases the glory and fame of those who are desirous of them, it cures the patients of there diseases and renders them immune to their effect further for a period of twelve years.