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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as useless; no where has such an event happened, which your son has undoubtedly done. Pleasures have been enjoyed in accordance with his desires, and getting a suitable opportunity, they have been abandoned like a piece of straw. The great king Moha -who gives immeasurable misery to people of this world. and who is conquerable with difficulty by crores of series of Suréndras ( Indras of gods ) and of kings-has been vanquished sportively ( with great ease) by your son. Such is the might of your son; of none else. Again after having destroyed Moha and having accepted ascetic life like a lordly lion and having carefully observed all the rules in their minutest detail like a lion, he has commenced this Āradhanâ ceremony for the destruction of the remaining varieties of his Karmas. With the help of the Gaņâdhi sa (chief of the the Congregation ) Gayadhara Bhagavāna Śri Gautama Swâmî, he will attain the ajara-amara-pada i-e Moksa where there is no old age and no death. Why do you entertain affliction at this ? In case, however, he had fallen into the well of this Samsāra, then, only you can have anxiety for him. He has acquired the Eternal Place of Permanent Happiness which is free from all kinds of birth-old age death-disease-sorrow etc. Why do you indulge in grief? Your son has illuminated the Venerable Jaina Sãsana, and his own family.
Besides, your son-in-law, Dhanya by name-is fortunate by actions-is fortunate by Right Intellect-is fortunate by performance of unique religious duties and he is fortunate in respectfully maintaining through inis own well-behaved disposition, his relatives who are wicked in imputing blemishes of wickedness on others and who have done haughty actions several times. How often, can I praise the boldness of Dhariya ? Because he has abandoned his eight wives, at a time, without any strong reason except religious preaching etc. and having abandoned the material anxiety which is capable of furnishing the fanciful ideas about the pleasures of this world, he has accepted with the greatest ease the most precious Cintamani Ratna (the ekcellent gem capable of fulfilling the possessor's all desires) i-e Caritra Dharma (ascetic