Jainism For Beginners Level 02

Author(s): Sayampurnashreeji
Publisher: Sayampurnashreeji

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Renunciation Event DIKSHA KALYANAK
The celestial-gods then celebrate the birth-event of Tirthankara on the splendid Mount Meru. Indra, addressing the mother of Tirthankara says: "The bearer of unique child, I bow down to you. We shall celebrate, the birth of Tirthankara, so do not feel afraid”. He puts mother of Tirthankara to deep sleep, prepares and places the exact replica of child besides her. Then with divine power he creates five Indras resembling him. One of them picks up the Tirthankara child with his palms, another holds the umbrella behind Indra. The other two move the whisks on the two sides and the fifth one moves ahead holding the thunder-bolt in his hand.
in this event, the would be
Tirthankara gives up all wordly possession and family relationship. After fasting and bowing to the siddhas, He accepted the conduct of equanimity by utterning "I renounce all sinful activity”. At the time of initiation He recites "Karemi Sutra" but do not utter the word Bhante.
BASICS OF JAINISM
He along with other crores of celestial beings sit on the Mount Meru facing east and perform the anointing ceremony. After glorifying and worshiping the Tirthankar, Indra places Him besides His mother and takes away the replica image. Indra then inserted nectar composed of the juice of various foods in the Divine Child's thumb. Divine child gradually grew up passing
up passing through various stages of play - life and childhood.
After accepting initiation is endowed with Manah - Paryavajnana with the help of which he gained direct awareness of the thoughts of all sentient five- sensed beings. After becoming an ascetic, He took the vow of total silence and wandered while observing penance. He endured adversities afficated upon him by both heavenly and human beings, with perte perfection and equanimity, remaining unblemished and undistributed, without dejection & exercising three fold restraint of mind, speech and body. He forgave the perpetrators of these afflictions & endured these with tolerance serenity & patience.
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