Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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“Oh Lord ! your body which is so well-built shows ihat you have eaten excellent food because when there ts fire at the roots, the tree cannot be green; (so also when a man is hungry he cannot be so hefty. )
Haribadhra was arrogant, and he deemed himself superior to all other scholars. He had vowed that he would become the disciple of anyone who showed himself to be superior to him intellectually by revealing the true meaning of anything regarding which he had a doubt. In other words, he believed that he knew everything. Once, he happened to be going near a Jain nunnery. He heard a nun by name Yakinimahattara memorizing a Sutra, the meaning of which he could not make out. He approached her to get a clarification from her. She directed him to a great Jain acharya wiro cleared his doubt and made him understand the meaning of the Sutra. At once, he became a desciple of that acharya and consequently he developed an extraordinary regard for Jain doctrines.
Sometime later, he happened to go to the same temple where once he had ridiculed the image of Lord Mahavir. Now, on seeing the same image, he said :
वपुरेव तवाचष्टे भगवान् वीतरगताम् ।
नहि कोटर संस्थेऽग्नौ तरुर्भवति शाद्वलः ॥ ( Vapureva thavachashte Bhagavan veetharagatham | Nahi kotara samsthegnow Tharurbhayathi shadwalah !! )