Jainism Abroad

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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One night, an unforeseen and auspicious event took place there.......
...There in TRISHAL DEVI's richly decorated personal chamber, lay a preciously ornamented and beautiful couch and .."On such a couch lay she, half-asleep and half-awake, and at the confluence of the prior and posterior halves of the night, dreamt the following noble..........till fortunate, fourteen great dreams and woke up. They are: an elephant, an ox, a lion, anointment, a garland, the moon, the sun, an ensign, a jar, a lotus lake, a sea, a celestial abode, a heap of gems and a burning flame". *
The visualizing of these fourteen Divine objects in her dreams by Queen Trishala, which are usually seen by any Tirthankara's mother, were indicating a great event which was taking place thereby..............
A great soul, descended 82 Days & Nights before them from luminous celestial abode and already entered into the womb of Brahmani Devananda, is being transplanted (like the 20th century's Heart-transplantation!) by the celestial beings from Mother Devananda's womb to Kshatriyani Queen Mother Trishala Devi's womb. As a result of this transplantation, was the follow-up of the above-narrated 14 Divine dreams which were indicative and symbolic of the entering of the great-famed Arhata's Soul in the highly fortunate mother's womb.
The entrant Arhata-Tirthankara's soul was none other than that of future BHAGAWAN MAHAVEERA and past MARICHI, the grand son of the then Ist Jain Tirthankara Bhagawan RISHABHADEVA, who had increased the chain of his births by then increasing his "Ego" and who had then, after getting aware, carried on the rigorous and long journey of 27 births
for Soul-purification and self-realization.............
Today, after this great great 'PURUSHARTHA-YATRA' of 27 Births, he has entered Mother TRISHALA's womb to take one. more and final Birth to complete his remaining PURUSHARTHA-SADHANA, to realize his integrated Being-the soul in totality, to "be" in it for ever by breaking the unending chain of Births & Deaths and also to, translift and enlighten the suffering humanity through his boundless compassion,
Infinite Knowledge (ANANTA JNANA)
Infinite Cognition (ANANTA DARSHANA) and
Infinite Conscious-Conduct (ANANTA CHARITRYA)
*"KALPASUTRA: English Translation by Sri K.C. Lalwani: JAIN JOURNAL, April 1973, p.p. 171
For this ever-great mission, as in case of the highly Divine Power-Possessing ARHAT TIRTHANKARAS, Bhagawan MAHAVEERA was also possessing from his very entry in the human frame the THREE qualities of knowledge (MATI JNANA, SHRUTA JNANA, AVADHI JNANA) and the potentialities of highly miraculous divine powers, which were to be developed into 34 "ATISHAYAS" - The Super Powers in course of his life.
This compassionate, three-knowledge-possessing Great Soul, the very entry of whose has indicated numerous suspicious fortunes for Mother Trishala Devi and the whole Kingly family, minutely cares for the good and welfare of the mother with deepest respects throughout even when in his pre-birth condition I the mother's womb for 9 months and 71⁄2 days. And then opens the new horizons of his birth-great, unique, magnificent!
THE GREAT BIRTH..........
Chaitra Shukla Trayodashi- the thirteenth day of the first half of the month of Chaitra........... In the white moonlight of this glittering half of the Chaitra month, the highly potential consciousness of this unique soul is going to be embodied in human frame to develop and to gradually get absorbed into the original form of the Self through SHUKLADHYANA the meditation of the purest whitening state of one's own self, of the absolute, detachment-less soul. That newly born conscious soul is going to become the last "ARIHANTA-TIRTHANKARA" of this descending TIME by becoming DHARMA-CHAKRAVARTI (The Great Emperor of Religion), whose SHASANA, the reign, is to last on this earth not for the "short term" of five, fifty or hundred years, but for a "long term" of Twenty One thousand years!
Today, Chaitra Shukla Trayodashi, is the Birth Day of this great great Soul in the Kingly Palace of Siddhartha...........