Mahavira His Life And Teachings

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

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on Earth. Rudra and his wife Parvati, it appears, took it into their heads to test the Lord's powers of endurance. They tried all means to tempt him out of his meditation; but Mahavira had so thoroughly annihilated the longings of the flesh and the cravings of the senses that all the efforts of Rudra and his spouse were in vain. They were so well satisfied and pleased that they praised the Lord and wished him and his mission success.
Christ had his temptations; indeed what great teacher had not to resist them and prove his fitness for his mission on Earth !
The path to Greatness is paved with tem. ptations !
Soon after, he attained the Manhparyaya Gnan, the fourth one which extended his power of knowledge not a little.
As months rolled into years, Mahavira went on performing one penance after another and extending more and more the power of his soul and the strength of his spirit.
Thus at the end of twelve years of penance, the severest recorded in the annals of human history, he attained Kevalgyan,' omniscience, the highest type of knowledge, which knew no