Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 2

SR No.: 008003
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 802
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 20 MB

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a-sāśvata (non-eternal). This world exists during all the three periods-past, present, and future-in a general form and hence it is sāsvata (eternal), and it is a-śāśvata (non-eternal) owing to changes of periodic returns of an avasarpiņi and utsarpiņi. In the same way, Jiva (soul) is šaśvata (eternal) owing to its presence during all the stages, i. e. infancy, young age, old age etc. of its existence as a living being, and it is a-śāśvata (noneternal) owing to its various transformations during its existence as a human being, as a hellish being, and as a brute etc.
Although Śramana Bhagavâna Mahāvîra persuaded him, Jamali had no faith, as his mind was filled with wrong notion and accompanied by a few Sadhus and sādhvis previously deluded and misled by him, he went to various villages and towns spreading the ideas of his ill-conceived theories. The tale spread everywhere that "Jamāli has become a wrong believer."
One day, Jamali again went to Śrāvasti Nagari and stayed in a garden outside the town. Priyadarśanā also accompanied by one thousand sādhvis came to the town and stayed in the shop of a very rich potter named Dhanka with his permission Dhanka was a meritorious man whose soul was purified by the teachings of the Jinésvaras, and he allowed them to live in his shop thinking that “These persons have been misled and they have no faith in the word of the linesvara, and that it would be better if they are brought round anyhow to the Right Path --One day while taking out vessels from the hearth, Dhanka secretly threw a lighted splinter on the upper cloth of sădhvi Priyadarsana with the benign object of teaching her a valuable lesson. On seeing her upper garment being burnt, she told Dhanka :-“O good man! what have you done ? See my upper garment has been burnt." On hearing this Dhanka replied : --"O good sādhvi 1 Do not tell a lie. It is your accepted belief that "When a piece of cloth has been completely burnt it should be designated as burnt.” Otherwise, it is perfectly reasonable to accept the teac.