Jain Legend Vol 1

SR No.: 007594
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana
Publication Year: 2011
Total Pages: 367
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 2 MB

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Leaving S keta the Lord went to Kampilapura in P mc la region. From there, wandering through S rasena, Mathur , Namd pura, etc, he came to Videha and spent the rainy season in Mithil.
25th Year as Keval
At the end of the rainy season, the Lord left for Magadha. Giving sermons on the nirgranthatradition in various places, he arrived at R jag ha and sat in Gu a la caitya. It was here that Gatiprap ta text was composed. One monk, K lod y, asked the Lord that how does a person on his own do karmas that beget bad results. The Lord said, in the same way as immersed in the taste of impure food a person does not pay attention to its consequences, similarly, while doing something that gives momentary happiness and charm, a person forgets that its consequences will be bad later on. Naturally, K lod y asked, “in this state, how does a person do good deeds?” The Lord said -“A person has medicine which is bitter with the thought that it will be beneficial to the body. In the beginning, the attitude to do good deeds develops from inducement. Then, seeing its result being happy, people naturally start doing it."
K lod y's second question concerned violence that where one person makes a fire and the other douses it, which among these two commits greater violence and becomes a sinner. The Lord said -“The one who douses the fire does more violence on the fire; he destroys it. However, in dousing it, prevents and stops violence on the earth, water, air, the vegetable kingdom and mobile beings. Whereas the one producing the fire gives life to the fire, hence from fire it gets violence on other living beings. Thus, if we see carefully, the one who produces fire does greater violence than the one who douses it and as a result, obtains sin.”
Happy with the Lord's answers K lod y attained nirva in the end observing various kinds of penance and fast unto death. Ga adhara Prabh sa too observed a one month fast in that year and attained niry a and the Lord completed his c turm sa there.
26th Year as Keval
At the completion of the rainy season, the Lord gave sermons at various places and returned to R jag ha's Gu a la caitya. In this year,
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