Shraman Mahavira

SR No.: 011093
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dineshchandra Sharma
Publisher: Mitra Parishad Calcutta
Publication Year: 1976
Total Pages: 351
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 13 MB

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THE LORD'S BIOGRAPHY SOME IMAGES AND SKETCHES
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the parents to release the prince from the bondage of studies the very first day 1
If we assess the present without making a reference to the past we go no farther than analysing a personality In so far as we thus obliterate the vital back-drop of antecedents, we fail to evaluate the essential core of existence of the being in question
When we size the present up excluding the future perspective then we go no farther than his origin and ignore the destiny that awaits a man
The present has the potential to germinate the seed of the past and sow that of the future One capable of viewing the two potentialities simultaneously, never breaks up or disintegrates the personality and the enveloping aura of his existence. He does not allow the origin and the destiny to divorce from each other He views the whole as an integrated whole Such a comprehensive observer does not explore the seed of an event occurring at the age of eight within those eight years, but scans the earlier period ranging to the very beginning of things The prodigiousness of prince Vardhman cannot be explained on the basis of his heritage or intellectual calibre It can be explained in the perspective of the great fermentation hidden in the chain of preceding
rein-carnations
Sanmati:
It was the era of Lord Parshva Thousands of his disciples had been roaming about the integrated Indian subcontinent and Central Asia Two of his followers visited the town of Kshatriyakund The one was Sanjaya and the other Vijaya They belonged to the class of Charana saints and had the capacity of soaring in the sky They had their doubts on a metaphysical issue Their attempts at solving it did not yield results They came to the royal palace of Siddhartha There they saw
1 Ibid pp 248, 249