Bhagvana Mahavira

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Bhagavān Mahāvīra
diet. She tried to keep herself as cheerful as she could by avoiding sadness, anxiety, anger, hatred, jealousy, envy etc. Sbe kept the entire atmosphere cheerful and sweet. She walked slowly, spoke in soft tones and never laughed aloud. She would not sit under the open sky and would not make any kind of hurry. The best development of the child takes place in the womb of mother. The mother is to a very large extent responsible for the development. The mother who knows her responsibility will certainly give birth to a child which is beautiful, enlightened and valorous. An ignorant mother, on the other hand, gives birth to a child who is ugly, unintelligent and timid. Trišalā fulfilled her responsibility successfully. Therefore, she gave birth to a child fully beautiful and possessed of the best qualities.
The child was born with divine characteristics. He commanded a wonderful form. His breath was sweet and fragrant. It made the whole atmosphere saturated with a sweet smell. It was a wonderful thing. It was an indication of the fact that the child would be the dharma-cakravarti. The child did not emit any sweat or dirt from its body. Sweat cleans the body of all kinds of dirty substances. But the child was inherently pure in every respect. There was nothing unhealthy in its body. The purity of the soul destroys all the ailments of the body. The flesh and blood of the child's body maintained a white colour which is a sacred mystery and need not be explained in terms of the Laws of Physiology according to which the blood of a human being contains white as well as red corpuscles. Diseases develop and the body may die even if one variety of these corpuscles is out of the required proportion. This child's body might have maintained a balance between the two kinds of corpuscles and still the colour of its flesh and blood might have remained white like milk.
Thousands of people came to have a look at the extraordinary child and they became exhilarated by the sweet