Beyond Doubt

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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and the Goddess of Saraswati is most pleased with you [सरस्वती लब्धप्रसाद]
May you be victorious and may your fame and glory spread in all directions."
While the disciples were singing his glory, Indrabhuti on his way to the "samavasarana" thought that the omniscient whom he was going to yisit has unnecessarily provoked him due to false pride of His omniscience, He was in no way going to be benefited by doing so. Indrabhuti said to his disciples "His effort to challenge me by declaring the omniscience is as dangerous and ridiculous as a frog challenging a snake and a mouse making an attempt to count the teeth of a cat. He is also no less than a bull trying to fight Iravata, the elephant of Lord Indra and is like an elephant trying to destroy a mountain with its trunk. He is like a rabbit trying to play with the mane of a lion and is like a child placing its hand on the hood of the legendary Seshnaga? to get hold of the gem on it. He is as foolish as the person who is trying to cross the river that is in spate with the help of a straw. He ought to know -
खद्योतो द्योतते तावद्यावन्नोदेति चन्द्रमाः । उदिते तु सहस्त्रांशो न खद्योतो न चन्द्रमाः ।।
that a firefly shines in the sky only as long as the moon does not rise, but when the sun rises neither the firefly nor the moon shines in the sky.I am as dazzling and famous as the sun and the scholars who, like the firefly have vanished in no time. My knowledge is infinite and also there is no branch of knowledge or scripture which I have not studied.
लक्षणे मम दक्षत्वम् साहित्ये संहिता मतिः । तर्केऽकर्कशता नित्यम्, कुशास्त्रे नास्ति मे श्रमः ॥
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Samvasarana Sheshanaga
place of sermon of thirthankars divine snake
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