Shrutsagar 2017 05 Volume 04 Issue 01

SR No.: 525323
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiren K Doshi
Publisher: Acharya Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Koba
Publication Year: 2017
Total Pages: 36
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Shrutsagar, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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SHRUTSAGAR
7
June-2017
thers and ancestors also had existed. A new born baby is not taught how to suck milk. Such activity is a result of the impressions of the previous births. There are so many dissimilarities in all the worldly beings and there has to be a reason for all these differences. Without accepting the rebirth theory, one cannot understand the cause for all these variations in all creatures. The accumulated Karmas (meritorious and evil) of the previous births is the cause of all inequality. If previous birth exists, then naturally rebirth also exists where the Jivatman1 experiences the Karmas accumulated in this birth. Thus innumerable births of the past and the following births of each birth is proved and the theory of rebirth is established." Thus the Lord clarified the doubt of rebirth which Metarya Swami had and established him as the tenth Ganadhara. His three hundred disciples too surrendered to Lord Mahavira. The Lord preached the 'Tripadi', and Metarya Swami created the Dvadashangi.
All the ten great scholars got their doubts cleared and became the Prime disciples of Lord Mahavira. How could the last of the eleven scholars, remain behind? Prabhas, the eleventh brother followed them to the place of sermon of the Lord, along with his family of 300 disciples. He had a doubt about 'Nirvana'2 which he desired to get it clarified from Lord Mahavira and thus become the way farer on the path of infinite bliss and joy.
As soon as the Lord saw Prabhas Swami, he said, “Oh Prabhas! a fua” i.e. One should perform the Agnihotra i.e. a kind of a sacrificial ceremony throughout his life in order to gain heaven, after death. The result of performing such ceremony is the attainment of heaven and the aspirant does not benefit any other thing other than going to heaven. Heaven is the ultimatum of this ceremony and there is no scope for Nirvana or salvation. Hence such an aspirant never attains emancipation and this proves that there is no such thing as Nirvana. But there is another tenet of the Vedas which says,
1 Jivatman- Bondaged soul
2 Nirvana- Beatitude
1 there are two ‘Brahmas'. One is para (final beatitude) and the other is Apara (Posterior) from this statement one infers Nirvana to be a reality. Because of these two contradictory statements, you are unable to decide the truth and since years you are curious to know the truth."
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