Mahavira His Life And Teachings

Author(s): Saraswati Raghavachari
Publisher: Jain Sastu Sahitya

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the world. Though he drank in the pleasures of life, the pleasures did not drink him up. Sometimes a thought would flash upon his mind that he was born with a mission in life. But he would say to himself, "Not yet," and again the waves of worldly life would begin their incessant flow and ebb.
The idea, that he was born to become an instrument for the Spiritual uplift of mankind and that the time was fast approaching when he should wake up from his sleep of worldliness, became more and more persistent and allabsorbing as he neared the age of thirty years.
CHAPTER XIII That Fine Delicacy of Feeling
Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects. It is the spring-rain that melts the ice-covering of the earth and causes it to open to the beams of Heaven.
-FREDRIKA BREMER. At about this time, one day, Mahavir felt that there must be a parting of ways in the course of his life. He thought of Renunciation. But his mother could ill bear the very idea. The son is ever too young to his mother.