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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useless on his body. The reader would think that when a single bite from an ordinary snake is sufficient to kill a man, it is really something of a miracle that one would not die even when one is constantly bitten by a poisonous snake. But he should know that it is nothing but the strength of penances coupled with Truth, Non-violence, Holiness, and want of vanity. Every one is at liberty to try this way. There is no restriction of time or place or ability and disability for attaining this strength. All people, men and women, old and young, rich and poor, high and low are equally entitled to possess it.
Thus the Yaksha played a numberless ugly tricks upon the Lord; but to his utter astonishment he found that they produced just the contrary effect upon him. His face was becoming more and more serious not on account of fear and pain, but on account of internal happiness.
While the Lord was passing through these ordeals, Siddhartha Vyantara ( a semi-god ), who had known all these incidents through his Clairvoyant knowledge, came running to the Yaksha and, said, "O Silly Yaksha ! What have you done? Don't you know that he is Lord Mahavira? Even Indra, the Lord of heavens, worships and bows down to him. If he comes to know of today's incidents, what will become of you? I think the end of your life is at hand. Could you not recognise him even from his face? When you knew it perfectly well that people ran away with their life from your very presence, it was not very difficult to understand that one who had deliberately stayed in your abode must have done so relying on his own strength. ' "The Yaksha had already lost his heart to see his tricks being baffled