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. . चुलणीमियाने कसौटीमें हार पाइ तो भी दूसरे दिन उसके बच्चे तो जीन्दाही मिले । माताने कसोटीके समय दृढ रहनेही शिक्षा दी, तव वह एक बारकी हारसे कम हिम्मत न हुआ और धर्मध्यानमें प्रयास करता ही रहा। अन्तमें महाविदेह
i * My own imagination explains the terms महाविदेह, क्षेत्र, विहरमान & सीमंधर in this way. 'सीमानम्'
धारयति इति सीमंधरः' सीमंधर is he who holds the .सीमन् or boundary i. o. Protector of the Faith, whose responsibility is enormous--say inconceivable. en does not mean physical place, it means भुवन or plane'. महाविदेह क्षेत्र means that plane or ya of life in which a man can exist independant of physical body o आधारिक शरीर.
A. Sadhu or & Saint can by means of आहारक लब्धि visit सीमंधर स्वामी or the तीर्थकर (Protector of the Faith ) who cannot live in our · land but who dirells in महाविदेह क्षेत्र i. e. the plane where there is perpetual चतुर्थ युग of joy or आनंद. Now what is this aster? It is that power of concentration or at thich enables a man to quit the physical garb and to travel singly.
विहरमान (Present Participle Adj. of वि with . ) means spurting, niring. The High Souls in
महाविदेह plane do actually move in air or subtlo matter and move from one place to avothor as if sporting. They being full in knowledge fool आनद even in airing; hence their विहार is
cquivalent to sporting, .. · This is what my imagination tells mo
unaided by any tonchor withor' त्यागी or गृहस्थ.
