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सच्चिदानंदी शुध्ध स्वरूपी, अविनाशी में आत्मा हूँ ।"
(Dhoon:Couplet)
"SACHCHIDANANDI SHUDDHA SWAROOPI"
AND AS THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS SOUL'S achievement dawns on him, there appears a serene joyousness on his face, the light of the omnipotent, complete Panchamajnana, the Kevala-Jnana and Kevaladarshana - in his soul. Nirgrantha Mahavir, free from all bonds of love and hate has now become self-realised, omnipotent, omnipresent vitarag, Arihant, Tirthankar Bhagawant.....!
...... To have the holy glimpse of the lord and to hear the divine sermons & preachings, the clean celestial planes of the Devas flew, groups of human beings gathered and animals and birds flocked......
The divine "Samosarana" (H) was formed, the "Ashta Pratiharis" (fa) present themselves in his services and the melody of the Devdundubhi (aggr) rent the air.
The lord explained to all the meaning of Jeeva, Ajeeva, Atma, Karma and its fruits, the difference between Loka and Aloka, good deeds and sins, Truth and untruth, Asarva Samvara and Bandh, Nirjara and Moksha........
" एगो मे सासओ अप्पा"
(Shloka:Couplet)
"EGO ME SASAO APPA"
A stream of such holy lectures on different subjects followed and many found solace through it. Thus his "DharmaTeertha Pravartana" flowed ceaselessly through the land, it preached compassion, non-violence, self-control, penance and vision in action; anekantvad - syadvad in thought and the Sarvavirati, deshvirati vows in religion. Balanced by definition in behaviour, decorated by the right vision, right knowledge and right conduct, this all-pervasive "Pravartana" formed the Chaturvidha Sangha, the four fold religious order. Among the monks of this group, Gandhara Gautam Swami stood in the fore-front; among the nuns was Arya Chandanbala; among the "Shravakas" were Anand & others and among the Shravikas were Revati, Sulasa and a few other such scholarly women.
At that time several problems peculiar to the country, society and religion were: Division of people on the basis of caste, the high-caste brahmins and the low-caste sudras; exploitation of the women, hypocrisy, animal sacrifices and violence, rigidity, superstition, useless rituals and show of religiosity minus true devotion in short, a materialistic attitude was to be found everywhere. Lord Mahavir had a solution to all these problems, a cure for all these illnesses, and an answer to all the questions:
