Beyond Doubt

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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Hearing the whole incident, I asked them to make a survey of their land, as I had my own doubts of some impurity or dead body having been cremated there. When they looked into the old records of the Municipality, they discovered that the bunglow housed a grave that lay burried under. I then asked them to perform the 'Shanti Snatra' and construct a platform with a lamp lit on the raised platform so that the evil spirit could be pleased and cause no trouble thereafter. When they carried out the instructions, the trouble subsided. The spirit was quietened by the recitation of the 'Shantisnatra' and was satisfied by the light of the lamp.
In today's world, only when one sees all this with one's own eyes one believes in them and in the existence of Devas, not otherwise.
Having got the doubt cleared regarding the existence of the Gods Shri Mauryaputra along with his 350 disciples got initiated in the order as a Shramana like his brothers. After hearing the 'Tripadi' he too worked out the Dvadashanga. Thus Mauryaputra became the 7th Gandhara.
Akampitaji was the next to meet Lord Mahavira. The Lord addressed him, as he addressed his elder brothers. The Lord Said. "Oh Akampita, "gas Te richi " i.e.After death there is no life in hell and "नारको वै एष जायते यःशूद्रा
falli.e.one who eats the food cooked by an outcaste, will be born as a hellish creature. These two contradictory statements of the Vedas are the cause of your doubt. You are doubtful whether there is the existence of hellish creatures or not."
Akampitaji agreed to what the Lord said. The Lord had
Shanti Snatra
a kind of prayer
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