Confession Path to Self Liberation

SR No.: 006944
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gunratnasuri
Publisher: Jingun Aradhak Trust
Total Pages: 146
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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his calamity, he was concerned for the executioners. Dear readers you decide who suffers more? The person whose skin is being peeled off or the one who is peeling it?
In spite of being innocent, the muni wasn't angry neither with the king nor his executioners. He was deeply engrossed in meditation and the executioners gradually peeled off his skin. The muni achieved omniscience & attained salvation. His muhappatti was completely coloured with blood. A kite took it to be a mass of flesh and flew with it in the sky. Coincidently, it dropped near the queen in the palace. She enquired from her servants and came to know that the king had ordered the executioners to kill her brother. Knowing about his
death, her heart trembled with pain and sorrow' and was filled with remorse. The king also came. to know about the truth and couldn't control himself by the grief. They thought that it was by accident that they had committed such an unjust and shameful act. Staying at the unrealistic material world could again cause the same in future. Hence, they accepted asceticism. After confession, penance, criticism and devotion both attained salvation gaining kevalgyan.
The muni had to get his skin peeled off for not confessing the sin of rejoicefully peeling the skin of a vegetable. On the contrary, the king, who was responsible for his death, confessed and attained salvation.
4) ARNIKKUMAR REPENTS
Arnik muni practised asceticism with uttermost care and sincerity. One noon, he was on his way for accepting food and was exhuasted by the heat of the sun from above and the path below. He stood under the roof of a building belonging to a passionate lady. She invited the muni through her servants under the pretext of offering food. The muni was trapped by
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