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Veerstava-Prakirnak-10- Gatha-23 [23]- Meaning- Veetaraag- attachment is nothing but attraction towards the auspicious, pleasurable objects and its opposite, i.e. revulsion towards inauspicious and painful objects, is aversion. Because, O'Lord! from such attachment and version, you are free, so you are known as Veetaraag.
[24]- Meaning- When their pride is destroyed, the principal gods like the Brahmaa, Vishnu, Mahaadev and Soorya, too bow at your feet. Even then O' Lord! You remain unaffected. Therefore, You are Veetaraag- Attachment transcended.
[25]- Meaning. The lotus that lives a life of being rubbed, crushed, plucked and grabbed and eaten by aquatic creatures, lives (metaphorically) in your hands, feet, eyes, nails and lips without all these faults and flaws.
[26]- Meaning- Curly hair, dence eyebrows twinkling starry eyes and being without a teacher are considered to be flaws in a person, but in your case the very same things are taken as virtues only.
[27]- Meaning- O' Lord even if the gods that appear in various forms live in your body i.e. your body looks so divine), you are without the flaws that are attributed to those gods. Therefore, you are said to be Veetaraag - attachment transcended.
[28]- Meaning- Kevalee-Those who know all the substances, caused by there infinite changing nature, in three time-periods past present and future -are said to be Kevalees or omniscients.
[29]- Meaning- You, O Lord! Constantly and completely know all the substances worthy of beings known through the spread of your unvanquished power. Therefore, you are called Kevalee or the omniscient.
[30]- Meaning- Tribhuvanguru-Lord! You are tribhuvanguru - the universal teacher because you infuse the beneficial law into the words that the intelligent pent sensory living beings of the world associate with meaning (understand).
[31]- Meaning- You are called Sarva - complete, because you are beneficial for all the fine as well as gross creatures of the world, who are, otherwise, completely enshrouded by pain and misery.
[32]- Meaning-Tribhuvanvarishth- You are Trubhuvanvarishth or universally supreme because you are the best in force, power, potency fortune, appearance, general and specific knowledge, & because you occupy universally best designation of Teerthankar).
[33]- Meaning-Bhagavant or Bhayant-O' Lord! Because of complete beauty, wealth, righteousness, radiance, Endeavour and fame, your designation as 'Bhaga' is indisputable. Therefore, you are Bhagvant - the Lord of the universe.
[34]- Meaning- O' Jineshvara! (the master conqueror) you are Bhayaanta, because you have conquered or given up the seven types of fears that beset the creatures in this world as well as in the world hereafter.
[35]- Meaning- Teerthankar- you are known as Teerthankar by virtue of your having established the four-fold religious order (Chaturvidha Dharma sangh - teerth) or for establishing the first Gandhara Teerth.
Aagam - 33 - Veerstava
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
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