Divine Love Its Possible

Author(s): Namramuni
Publisher: Parasdham Mumbai

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created. This is the power of abhigraha.
Thus, your circumstances are the reflections of your intentions.
Lord Mahavir too had taken a vow at an auspicious moment. HE had thought of an abhigraha in His mind and had firmly decided that He would only break His fast on the day HIS vow is fulfilled.
Today, even after five months and twenty-five days, His abhigraha has not been fulfilled. Due to the firmness of his intentions, circumstances have finally become favorable to HIM.
Lord Mahavir is looking at Chandana and recollecting the thirteen conditions of His abhigraha, one-by-one...
His first condition is... that he will only accept food and water from the hands of a lady who is a princess leading a virtuous life... a pious life... must have been sold in a market, whose head should be bald and her hands and legs tied in shackles, she must be sitting at the doorsill of a dark room, her one leg should be inside the doorsill and the other leg should be out, there should be a sieve in her hands with black beans in it. Lord Mahavir noticed that all these conditions were fulfilled... they were exactly as He had determined.
Moreover, there is immense happiness on Chandana's face as Lord Mahavir has come to her doorstep today.
As he could see all his conditions being fulfilled, he thought the moment had arrived when He would break His fast... His abhigraha was about to be fulfilled...!
Chandanbala is waiting eagerly to offer food to Lord Mahavir... but unexpectedly, in the midst of this atmosphere of joy and happiness, HE turns his back and he leaves...
Chandana is shocked! She starts shivering.
How does one feel, if on the verge of experiencing total universal bliss,... complete happiness... one loses it all in a fraction of a second
She thinks... “this world gave me pain, unhappiness, anguish. My
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