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- COMPASSIONATE BHAGAVAN MAHAVIR
More than twelve years passed since Mahavir had started doing vigorous penance and other spiritual practices. He arrived at the banks of Rijubaluka river near Jrimbhak village. After a two day fast without water he sat in the Godohasan under a Sal tree and started deep meditation.
On the tenth day of the bright half of the month of Vaishakha, when the moon entered the Uttara Phalguni lunar mansion in the evening he acquired Kewal-jnana and Kewal-darshan. He attained the, status of Arihant and became endowed with many superlatives and the eight divine insignias.
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Innumerable gods and goddesses arrived to celebrate the occasion of his becoming omniscient. The gods created the divine religious pavilion (Samavasaran). Mahavir gave his first religious discourse.
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This world is the source of misery. It is the perpetuator of miseries. Do not cause pain to any being through
mind, speech, or action
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