Jainism For Beginners Level 02

Author(s): Sayampurnashreeji
Publisher: Sayampurnashreeji

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Through habitual mental judgement
and emotional contraction, you have personalized
velationship with people & events in
your life. These are all forms of self created suffering,
but they are not recognized as such because to the ego they are satisfying.
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NIRVANA
In the early morning of the new-moon night, the remaining four types of nondestructive Karma were destroyed. And thus with all the eight Karma completely annihilated, his soul soared high and reached the pinnacle of Loka and went to the permanent abode of Siddhas, never to return again. And thus the soul achieved the highest goal of Liberation.
hagawan Mahavirs Last Sermon
U at Pavapuri lasting Forty-eight Hours and his final Liberation During thirty years of his life as a Tirthankar, Bhagawan Mahavir preached his gospel of Ahimsa to millions of people and initiated thousands of disciples into monk hood. At the age of seventy-two, he came to Pavapuri to spend his final monsoon season. In the month of Ashwin he observed a fast for two days, taking neither food nor water, sat in the lotus posture on a golden lotus and delivered his last and longest sermon, lasting for forty-eight hours, before the the four-fold sangha.
LIFE OF BHAGWAN MAHAVIR
All the eighteen rulers of the various states were present at the time of Bhagwan Mahavir's Nirvana. When the light of knowledge was extinguished, they lighted numerous earthen lamps. And it was since then that the Festival of Lights, called Deepavali is being observed in India. Indra and the other gods flew down to earth to celebrate the fifth Kalyanak. They bathed his body with holy waters, applied sandal paste, dressed the body in rich garments,
This sermon was compiled in the Jain scripture known as Uttaradhyayan Sutra.
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