Mahavira His Life And Teachings

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

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the mute eloquence of a look or the persuasive power of a loving face. Love's most significant thoughts are unspoken. The full heart knows no rhetoric of words. It resorts only to the panto. mime of sighs and glances.
Mahavira looked now at his brother and then at his wife. His heart moved like a pendulum betwixt the ideal, and the actual.
He began to think. By means of his threefold knowledge- Mati, SHRUTI and AVADHI GNAN ------ he knew that the full span of his earthly existence was of 72 years. He was only twenty-eight years old. He could wait for two years more, he thought.
Then he said to his brother, “For another two years, I shall stay with you in this palace." Yashoa shed tears of joy and Nandi Vardhan embraced his brother in thankfulness.
XV Mahavira & Buddha. And I read the moral— A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whatever its worth, Is better than life with love for everAnd love is the sweetest thing on earth..
- J. J. Roche.