Story Book

SR No.: 007663
Original Sutra Author: Shrimad Rajchandra
Author: Dinubhai M Patel
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Total Pages: 67
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Rajchandra
File Size: 20 MB

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Mokshmala - Lesson-43. Incomparable forgivness, Gajsukumar
him and I had to hear from him sentences not worth describing to you, but I hated everything and I drove him away. What a great lawlessness than this can
be said prevailing in your kingdom ?' Normally kings are always known for their impassionateness and onesided hearing and making hasty decisions without due or proper considerations, and added to this, came the sweet deceitful statements from his own queen. All these enraged the King very much just as a drop of cold water falling in extremely hot oil pan would enrage fire instead of quelling the heat. The king soon ordered that Sudarshan be hanged to death immediately and all arrangement for it were completed, what was left was only to hang Sudarshan.
Whatever else there may be, there is enough light in the assembly of this great world. Truth ultimately shines out and prevails over all falsehood and injustice. So the very time Sudarshan was made to sit on the chair for hanging, the seat turned out to be a great royal throne made up of pure shining gold and celestial bands were played and joy prevailed all around. The noble saintly character of Sheth Sudarshan shone out in full splendour and glory in the world galaxy. This proved that truth always ultimately wins. The best steadfastness of Sudarshan for faultlessly noble and normally excellent character raises one's soul to a very pure and high state !
LESSON-43. INCOMPARABLE FORGIVENESS Forgiveness is an effective weapon to conquer internal foes. It is an armour protecting holy character. A person who with pure heart sustains forgiveness with equanimity of mind even in unbearable pain, is able to cross the ocean of worldly life.
EXAMPLE OF GAJSUKUMAR Gajsukumar, younger brother of Krishna Vasudev, very handsome, renounced the worldly life taking initiation from Bhagwan Neminath at young age of only twelve and was engrossed in deep meditation sitting in a crematorium; thereby his character full of wonderful forgivness, attained very high spiritual state of the self. I tell you that story. Gajsukumar was betrothed to a very beautiful daughter of a Brahmin named Somal but before marriage Gajsukumar renounced the worldly life. So Somal got fiercely angry and wild as his daughter missed a beautiful boy who would be her husband and he went in search of Gajsukumar and searched out from where that great monk Gajsukumar was sitting in performance of Kayotsarga, with pure heart and steadfast mind in a crematorium; prepared a furness of wet sticky earth on the head of Gajsukumar and putting burning charcoal in it and added other firewood and so there was great heat. Gajsukumar's young tender body began to burn and seeing this, Somal went away from there. You can imagine what a terrible pain Gajsukumar might have been suffering by burns. But he kept equanimity of mind and did not allow any anger to disturb his mental peace. On the contrary making his soul elastic he said to himself that had he accepted Somal's daughter as his wife in marriage, Somal might have given him a rich turban which would have been tattered by long use and resulted in worldly miseries but instead he gave him a turban of burning fire by which he could be released from his soul's attachment to his body and so helped him to obtain quick liberation. As a result of this unshakable extreme forgiveness, Gajsukumar, bearing killing pain of burns with peaceful mind, became all seeing and all knowing, got infinite happiness of life. What an incomparable forgiveness and how excellent its result ! Philosophers have rightly said that if one's soul proceeds completely in its own nature of eternal peace and bliss, it realises liberation there and then. The famous forgiveness of Gajsukumar gives us an absolutely correct advice to follow it and realise our self quickly.
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