Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1

SR No.: 008001
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 650
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 15 MB

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is it possible for a well-rourished house folder with amplio weang, tv renain sexually chaste when he is surrounded, all the twenty-four hours of the day and night, by femalos and other objects of enjoyment ?
A house-holder who has to work hard for the maintenance of his family under over-changing conditions of pestilence, famine, wars, and their attendent disasters, with a number of liabilities over his head, cannot naturally think of prantising Tapa, Penance, and severe austerities.
A house-holder under such circumstances is not expected to have 79 Bhava,-Pure intentions for the Liberation of his soul.
Dana from being the only rafter loft for & house-holder desirons of crossing this onean of Samsāra, it is essential that it should be developed to a high degree.
pro HERIFT: Dānah Muhatyøgah. Dánah ( Giving away ) implies freedom from infatuation. As long as, I am in possession of any object that is dear to me I am always careful to keep it with me, and studiously avoid losing it. But. As soon as, I give it away to anyone else, I become free from the infatuation I had for it, saying “It is mine." The sense of her Mamatva, Attachment for the object as “mine”, disappears.
Indeed, Dāna Dharma -The Noble Virtue of giving away of food and drink-materials, other necessaries of life, gifts etc to needy persons, is a very valuable quality of the Soul. All the Tîrthankaras and other saintly persons, who, rising higher spiritually attained Kavala Jrāna and Final Emancipation, have always practised the noble virtue of Errani Dana Dharma the duty of alıns-giving, during their house-holder life.
During the time of Tirthankara Bhagavan Sri Ribabba-dava and thereafter, people were of strong constitution, tall, wallbalanced, and with great endurance; they were therefore able to observe celibacy of long duration, and practice severe abstorition