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utter the words a, I, u,,1, and destroying all the agh tikarmas, became enlightened, emancipated and liberated.
Sensing his nirv a time approaching the Lord had sent his first Ga adhara Indrabh ti Gautama to arouse through discourse the Brahmin named Deva arm. When he got news in the middle of the night about the Lord's nirva, he was very unhappy. Lovelorn, Gautama was wailing when suddenly his inner voice said – “Gautama! What kind of love is this? The Lord has renounced all; love for him is nothing other than passion. You should follow the Lord.” With this thought, the flow of his thinking changed and at the end of the night Gautama, destroying his gh tikarmas, obtained the immortal glow of pure knowledge and himself became the seer of three worlds.
There is a story as, “Once Gautama was sad seeing monks younger than him attaining nirv a asked Lord as to why he has not yet attained pure knowledge?” Sensing his worry Lord Mah v ra said to Guatama - “Gautama, you have intense love for me. Actually, the two of us have been together for many births. After completing our life span here, we shall reach the same place and yet not separate. Your love for me is an obstacle in the path of your attaining pure knowledge. The moment this love decreases you will attain pure knowledge.”
After nirva, Lord's dead body was taken to the funeral pyre on a palanquin. There, on a funeral pyre made of go r a sandal, constructed by the gods, the Lord's body was placed. Agnikum ra lit the pyre and with scented substances directed by the wind, the Lord's body was set to flames. Then Meghakum ra doused the fire with a shower of rain. At the time of nirv a the present 18 kings of the republics observed the fast in the fasting hall on the am vasy (darkmoon night) day. Sensing that the Lord has attained nirva, as a symbol of knowledge, lights were lit in every home in every village and city, which later on began to be observed on the new moon night of the dark fortnight of K rtika month in the form of D p val.
Lord Mah v ra's Life-span
rama a Lord Mah v ra stayed as a householder for nearly 30 years and 7 months. He observed austerity for 12 years, 5 months and 15 days and
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