Jailer

Author(s): Abhayshekharsuri, Sujata P Kapadia
Publisher: Harshadray Private Limited

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misplaced. "On the other hand, the jailer is not confined to a dark dingy cell, is not beaten, does not toil." Is this type of an attitude by a prisoner justified?
"Why do I have to bear the pain of surgery while the doctor does not have to bear any pain?" Does the patient have a right to raise a question like this? What is the meaning of such a question when the karmas in the form of an abscess or a tumour are being removed?
The minister ordered Khandhaksoori's five hundred disciples to be crushed in an oil mill. The disciples did not see injustice even in the unbearable pain that they had to endure, which resulted in their death. They all attained Keval jnana and ultimately, liberation. Their Guru, on the other hand, considered this to be a gross injustice and was punished because of this, to undergo cycles of birth and death. He requested the minister, "I will not be able to see the child monk being crushed in the oil mill, therefore you crush me first, and then the child monk." However the minister wanted to cause maximum harassment to Khandhaksoori, so he refused to oblige. He crushed the child monk first. Khandhaksoori thought, "You crushed four hundred ninety nine of my disciples for no fault of theirs and yet I did not utter a word. This was my last and only request, how could you turn even that down? This was a flagrant injustice on your part and on part of the citizens who quietly watched this injustice being carried out and did not prevent it."
When the mind sees injustice, it is unable to endure it
Keval jnana = absolute supreme knowledge, omniscience
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