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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additional fresh Karmas and a succession of eyll Karmas is increased.
Viśvabhūti Muni loses sight of the dignity of the influence of the Soul, and becoming enslaved by Karmas, he made the niyāņu. This indicates the predominating influence of Karmas.
Visakhānandi causes trouble to the Muni by unnecessarily cracking jokes at him. Hasya Mohanīga Karma (Mohaniya Karma caused by cracking jokes) is a form of the nine kinds of
ar No-Kaşāya.(minor passions)-a sub-division of one of the varieties of Caritra Mohaniya Karma ( Karma preventing the adoption of ascetic life. )
People become pleased by cracking jokes at other persons, but they do pot realize that at that time, they unluckily acquire the evil Karma of Hasya Mohani. There are numerous examples, cited in the Sastras, of terrible miseries experienced by people in future lives, as a result of evil Karmas previously acquired. “Slanders in jest often prove serious injuries." The soul of Visvabhūti Munl is born as Tripristha Vasudeva during the eighteenth Bhava, as a result of the niy&nu and the lion killed by him is the soul of Višākhānandi born as a lion. From the state of a human being - a prince in a royal family, the soul of Visākānandi is degraded into that of a brute, and from that condition, he is further degraded to the state of a Näraka, (a denizen of hell) and having suffered immense misery in that stage, he wanders for a very long time in Samsāra through various miserable Bhavas.
Besides this, during the twenty-seventh Bhava, when Śramaņa Bhagavån Mahāvira Swami was going from place to place in company with Ganadhara Gautama Swami and others after the acquisition of Kévala Jilāna, he pointed out a farmer to Ganadhara Gautama Swāmi and ordered him to instruct the farmer into the Right Path. We shall read the account of the farmer during the narration of events of that Bhava. Suffice to remember tbat the farmer was the soul of Visakhānandi incarnated during that Bhava.