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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
should aim to acquire omniscience. One would argue, what is the use of having such aim when omniscience cannot be acquired so easily and within a short period of time. But this is not a wise argument as we do not earn tons of money on the very day we start business still we do our business in anticipation of future profits, similarly in anticipation of omniscience in any of the forthcoming first, second, third, thirteenth, or even forty-third birth we should cherish the aim of acquiring omniscience. Sooner or later in this birth or in any of the forthcoming birth you shall be omniscient indeed; if you have cherished formerly such an aim and made endeavours accordingly. Do not forget, firm determination and sincere efforts are infallible means to make life a great success.
If one asks you what is going on at your back? Do you know it? Certainly you don't; because your faculty of vision is limited. If you acquire omniscience you would be able to see not only at your back but also behind the wall, inside the dark cellar or the happenings in a far off city, district, province or any part of any country. An owl can see at night in the darkness but cannot see in the daylight. A crow can see at day but not in the night. We can see clearly at day but see faint at night and in total darkness we cannot see at all but with omniscience we can equally see clearly at day or in the night. Any degree of density of darkness would not obstruct our sight. Do you know that nun Mrugavati could see a black cobra gliding over in thick darkness ?
Once upon a time, Lord Mahavira halted at Kaushambi. Sun and moon visited the place to pay their homages to the great Lord in their planes. The light of that place was so dazzling and so much prevailing over the whole sky that people mistaking the midnight for the day did not leave for their place and continued to stay over there. Nun Mrugavati also continued to stay there though her religious teacher Chandanbala returned to her halting place at her usual time.
When Mrugavati realised that night had far advanced she was much shocked and she began to repent for her fault. She returned to the monastery and begged pardon of Chandanbala. Chandanbala scolded her saying: "Nuns are not expected to keep late hours at night outside. They should be within the monastery in time”.
Mrugavati was a nun of extra-ordinary calibre. She was the royal empress of Kaushambi and before she took up to renunciation
