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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remove the miseries of the miserable. They are always eager to do good to the world. They do not care in the least for their own body, but they exert every nerve to remove the troubles of the afflicted. They act like light-houses for the forlorn. No evil passion of the world can stand before them. They show to the world the path of self-realisation. They are the true defenders of truth and non-violence.
Sins fly away and vanish at their very sight. It is they who have embraced the sinners and made them turn their face against evil. Such great souls never counter act the troubles that come in the path of their self-liberation with the help of their acquired powers. How so ever hard the miseries may be that befall them, they never try to ward them off, nor do they seek any human or divine help. Their sole object is to reap the consequences of their karmas however severe they might be. It is impossible for them to seek for any body's aid. Otherwise it would only add to the sum total of their karmas. This is why they suffer the consequences of their previous karmas with steadiness, courage, patience and forbearance.
A man can, perhaps, atone for his ordinary karmas through physical, oral or spiritual austerities, but one must reap the fruit of his Nikachita karmas.Nikachita is a technical name of a variety of karmas which has come to operate. Without reaping the necessary he cannot achieve the object of his next life. The Lord had already realised the truth of this principle.
The Lord said to himself,“ When high souled sages that have the honour of belonging to the 13th stage of spiritual evalution stop the operation of Nikachita karmas, persons