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the sky, with an intention to get an entry into the eternal kingdom of Kevala-Jnana or Omniscience. At night he fell into an apparent slumber for about an hour and saw ten dreams. The dreams with their effects are given below. According to the principles of dreamology all the dreams were to bear fruit immediately. When a man gains complete victory over nature by means of his good virtues, fortune and righteousness, Nature is bound to give him every information about the course of future events of his life in the same way as she informed Lord Mahavira by means of dreams. Nature works at his will, and all her temptations prove futile.
THE TEN DREAMS OF LORD MAHAVIRA
AND THEIR EFFECTS.
DREAMS.
EFFECTS.
1. To defeat a gigantic and 1. The Lord will put an end to fearful demon.
his Mohaniya Karma in the
near future. 2. To see a white Pumskokila, 2. The Lord will reach the last a kind of bird.
stage of his Shukladhyana
very soon. 3. To see Pumskokilas with 3. The Lord will give to the variegrated wings. world instructions full of
meaning and sense.. 4. To see two necklaces 4. The Lord will re-establish
studded with precious two courses of duties in the stones.
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