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his court to honor him. When Bhadra Shethani found out, she went to the king & told him that her son was very shy. & invited the king to come to their palace. King Shrenik accepted the invitation & went to Shalibhadra's palace. When King Shrenik reached there, he realized that his own palace was nothing compared to Shalibhadra's palace. Bhadra Shethani offered him a place to sit & asked Shalibhadra to come down to honour & respect the king.
his decision. His mother & all his wives tried to convince him to spend some more time with them. However, he was determined to renounce the world. Instead of renouncing all his possessions & family members at once, he agreed to spend one day with each of his wives & at the end of thirty-two days he would become a monk. He started to do that the very same day.
Stories During Bhagwan Mahavir's Life
Shalibhadra did not know anything about the king or his kingdom & thought that there was some sort of merchandise that his mother wanted to show him. So he said, "I do not want to see it but you go ahead & buy it." His mother said, “This is not merchandise. He is our king, our master, & you need to come down to greet & honour him." The word “master” started ringing in his ears. He wondered, "Why should I have a master over me? I should be the master of myself" While thinking like this, he came down & paid his respect to the king, but he did not stay very long.
He kept thinking that he was not a free person because there was someone like a king & master over him. He started to think about his father (who had become a monk) & the real meaning of life. He decided at that very moment to become a monk & told his family about
Shalibhadra had a sister named Subhadra. She was married to Dhanna. Dhanna had eight wives. One day Subhadra was giving her husband Dhanna a bath & suddenly tears rolled down her face & fell on him. He asked her why she was crying. She told him that her brother had decided to become a monk & that he had been spending one day with each of his wives & at the end of thirty two days he will become a monk. Dhanna laughed & told
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