Jainism For Beginners Level 02

Author(s): Sayampurnashreeji
Publisher: Sayampurnashreeji

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LIFE OF BHAGWAN MAHAVIR ►
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Life of
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he lives of Bhagawan Mahavir are counted from his life as that of Naysar, when he attained self-realization (Samyaktva). The significant lives are Naysar (birth no. 1), Marichi (birth no. 3).Vishvabhuti (birth no. 16), Triprushtha Vasudev (birth no. 18), Priyamitra Chakravarti (birth no. 23) and Nandan Muni (birth no. 25).
It is in the life of Nandan Muni that he attained Tirthankar Nam-Karma. At the end of that life he was born as a Deva. Then, in the third life after Nandan Muni, he was born as Vardhaman Mahavir. It is believed that all Tirthankars are born in the Kshatriya (warrior) royal family because it provides a surrounding that helps a
realized person to understand
that there is no permanent happiness in material comfort.
Queen Trishala, just like the mother of any other Tirthankar, saw fourteen objects in her dreams: lion, elephant, bull, Lakshmi, garland, full moon, sun, flag, vase, lotus lake, ocean, celestial plane, heap of jewels, smokeless fire. When her husband, King Siddhartha, asked the dream interpreters & scholars the meaning of the dreams; they proclaimed that Queen Trishala would give birth to a Tirthankar.
While in the womb, Bhagwan Mahavir had once been very still so as