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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He becomes unhappy on seeing them in misery, and he becomes pleased when he sees them happy. Under the false hope that my sons, my brothers, and my family-members will prove beneficial to me in future, he wastes time in nourishing and protecting them, and earns for himself, the evil Kar nas of suffering miseries for immense periods of time. The acquisition of happiness or misery depends chiefly upon the performance of meritorious or evil deeds. Under the benign influence of meritorious deeds, persons who are quite unfamiliar with us, who are not in the least acquainted with us, and of whom we have not the least idea or imagination or the wish that they can ever be expected to do anything for us, willingly come and serve us. Under the miserable influence of evil deeds, persons who are perfectly familiar with us since a very long time, and who have been nourished and carefully protected, even at personal sacrifice, do not in the least help us but they invariably bring on our destruction. Although Su-bhūma Cakravartin was the supreme sovereign of the six continents, besides although he was the possessor of the fourteen gems (precious articles) and nine treasures of a Cakravartin and although two thousand Yaksas (demi-gods) were constantly ready for rendering him service, he met with death by being drowned in sea. Besides, a single arm of Subhuma Cakravartin possessed strength equivalent to that of forty hundred thousand astāpada animals, he was able to walk as safely in sea as he was able to do on land, he possessed superhuman powers, he was able to make jurneys in whichever direction he liked *He had in his treasure-room numerous excellent medicinal substances, mantras (incantations) tantras (spells, charms). The great goddesses-Gauri, Gandhari Rohini, Prajnapti etc. the presiding deities of the North and South-were constantly in his service. The divine pilots of his vimānas (aerial cars) always did their work like so many faithful servants. He had numerous clever horses who were able to walk :dexterously even
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*An astāpada animal is said to possess strength to that eight lions.
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