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very fortunate while another is miserable. A condition of great difference in this world is caused as a reward of meritorious work and evil consequences of wicked actions in previous life. If there be no such thing as goa Punya, Reward for meritorious work and ara Papa, Evil consequence of wicked actions, in this world, all the individuals in every grade of life, must be uniformly happy or uniformly miserable, all must be uniformly healthy or uniformly weak or all must be uniformly wealthy or uniformly penniless.
He took a Diksa, Initiation at the hands of Śramaṇa Bhagavan Mahavira, along with his three hundred pupils.
Ganadhara Achalabhrātā was forty-six years old when he renounced the world He then studied the various works of
Jain Scriptures for a number of years. After a period of twelve years of ascetic life, Ganadhara Achalabhrātā acquired Kévala Gnana, Perfect Knowledge at the age of
fifty-eight.
Gaṇadhara Mahārāja Achalabhrāta remained a Kévali for fourteen years and he acquired a Moksha Pada, the State of Final Emancipation when he was seventy-two years old.
