Mahavira Life and Philosophy

Author(s): Sumeruchand Diwakar Shastri
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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meditation seated on burning rocks of mountains. In the winter season, extremely chilly winds, snow fall and biting cold could not disturb him. Even the heavy downpour during the rainy season could not distract his mental equipose. He needed no shelter or habitation. He looked like a part and parcel of nature
Supreme Wisdom
This supreme wisdom that "I am the conscious soul and the material body is quite distinct and different from me" helped him to remain peaceful and unperturbed against untold calamities and horrifying vissicitudes. My soul is imperishable. Outward agencies can effect the mortal coil only. I am different from the body, which possesses different characteristics. The body comprises of senseorgans but I am devoid of them. In the course of transmigration I had put on innumerable bodies because of infatuation and delusion. Now I am determined to burn this body and its causes once for all in the bonfire of supreme concentration. I have absolutely no relationship with the worldly objects. They are not mine. I am alone. I am Brahma, Parmatman-pure soul”.
A saint of high order thinks that during his initiation into monkhood he gets new life; rather he is reborn spiritually. Therefore past relationship with the world is altogether out of question, He utilises his every precious moment cautiously in his march towards his ideal of perfection and God