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CHAPTER II
The Four Extraordinary qualities that a Tirthankara is born with.
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(सहजचार अतिशय )
In explaining these extraordinary qualities of a Tirthankara - who has reached Liberation - one has to guard against that these are poetic exaggerations. Great saints have said that things that are very subtle, very far away, happened long ago are to be accepted by faith, and later by following the Sadhana shown, they will become fact. In deep mediations rany saints have vouchared the veracity of these extraordinary qualities which are the subject matter of chapters 2, 3 and 4.
Let me give a simple example as to how faith comes before fact: As a very small child you were told by your mother that this mar. 1s your father. You accepted that statement on faith. After living with both for over twenty years or more, this'faith. turns into fact. (To argue that 'technically, he may not be so 1r called wrong application of mind and wrong argument-palas ).
Similarly, I urge the dear readers to accept on faith and enjoy the beauty, vastness of thought of these extraordinary qualities ( 371 Satzr ). The: are used for some very important meditations in Jainism. I am sure a few, a very few perhaps, will experience the fact of these qualities through the process of
therefore Sadhana. Please do not demiss them as fairy imagination of a
poet!
