Jain Legend Vol 3

Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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to enjoy the worldly wealth and pleasures now. If you wish to be free from this world of transgression then you should first let a son to inherit our family be born and then you accept the monkhood. But no allurements, attachments, delusions or worldly dramas could detract Siddha who had already made affirm determination of achieving the perfection (Siddha). He repeatedly requested his father to give his permission to his teacher to initiate him into rama a monkhood.
Having realized fully in his mind that Siddha is neither angry nor frustrated and he is endowed with complete detachment from the world and no worldly power can change his path of detachment to worldly life and finding no other alternative, ubhamkara humbly requested the
c rya, “O brother of the world! Please initiate my inquisitive and diligent son into rama a religion and keep him in your shelter forever.'
Accepting the request from ubhamkara, the ac found an auspicious date and time and initiated Siddha into rama a monkhood
After his initiation, Siddhamuni faithfully practiced the five major vows given by his guru Garga i for his whole life. Also his guru's orders as topmost in his heart, Siddha observed severe penance and side by side deep study of the scriptures. Endowed with sharp intellect, Siddhamuni achieved complete knowledge of logic, grammar, astrology, mathematics, law etc all subjects and he became a very learned expert of scriptures. After studying the logic text of different religions, he developed a strong desire to study Buddhists logic texts deeply. On a suitable day, he presenting himself in the service of teacher, he expressed his desire to go to a distant Buddhist monastery to learn Buddhist logic and sought his permission to do so.
Using his knowledge of relativity, Gargai i said to Siddha i,' Son! Not to be contented with gaining more education is an auspicious sign. However, from your proposal, I am developing a feeling that the bad logic and pseudo middle term, you may develop pervert views. The result of this education will be that your belief in Jainism will be reduced and your belief in Buddhism will grow. Thus the entire merit earned by you so far by practicing the five major vows till now will go waste. All the meditation performed by you will also go waste. Under such circumstances, I advise you to please take out from mind the idea of going to Buddhist school to learn their logic science. Still if this idea of
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