Beyond Doubt

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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and shortcomings. But His personality seems to be as deep as the sea, as pleasant as the moon, as bright as the sun, as charged as the thundering clouds and is also not a vacuum like the sky and does not need any support as the Earth needs one. He is also unlike Kamadhenu, Kalpavraksha or Indramani' for Kamadhenu is an animal, Kalpavraksha belongs to the plant kingdom and Indramani is altogether a non-living entity.
Indrabhuti tried very hard to find someone or something in this world with which he could compare the solemn person before him. He found none among the heavenly beings and the elements of Nature. He seemed to be beyond all elements. Indrabhuti then turned to the surroundings of Lord Mahavira and was astonished at what he observed to be the effects of the deep resoluted power of the speech of the Lord.
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सारंगी सिंहशावं.
स्पृशति सुतधिया नन्दिनी व्याघ्रपोतम् मार्जारी हंसबाल
प्रणयपरवशात् कोकिकान्ता भुजंगम् । वैराण्याजन्मजाता
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न्यपि गलितमदा जन्तवो न्ये त्यजन्ति श्रुत्वा साम्यैकरू
प्रशमित कलुष योगिनं क्षीणमोहम् ॥
One who is equanimous and impartial to all creatures and one who has conquered all passions and sense-pleasures, only His speech can be so powerful and effective on hearing which even staunch enemies abandon their enmity and become friends. Whenever the great Tirthankars sermoned (preached), the deer
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