Night Mare is Over

Author(s): Gunratnasuri, Mokshratnavijay
Publisher: Adhyatma Shikshan Kendra

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womb of my friend Anjana and due to which karmas has she acquired such a state ?"
The sage, related in brief, the history of the previous births of the foetus and said, "This soul has come from the Lantak or sixth Devloka. This is his last birth. He will be
owed with innumerable qualities of strength and nobility and will be a great king. Finally he shall attain Moksha in this very birth."
He related the previous birth of Anjana as follows: Kanakrath was the King of Kanakpur city. He had two queens: Kankodari and Lakshmivati. The latter was a devotee of Jineshwardeva. She used to worship a Jina-image made of precious stones, in her house temple. Kankodari unable to eye the fame and praise of her co-wife, took the idol secretly and hid it in a pile of rubbish. As fate would have it, an Arya (A nun belonging to Jain Sect, also called Sadhavi.) named Jayasri, who was going around for alms, came there and discovering this wicked deed, said to Kanakodari in sweet and tender tone, "What wicked deed you have done by putting the idol in the pile of rubbish ? You have made yourself a prey to misery for many births to come; for people who disregard Deva and Guru and abuse them, roam in the cycle of births and lead a miserable life by their evil karmas." Kankodari filled with terror and fear, repented, and having washed the idol returned it to its lawful place. From then onwards she too followed a Shravika's vows and after death was born as Devi in the first Saudharma Devloka. From there, after her life span was complete, she (devi) has been born as the daughter of King Mahendra. The cause of unhappiness in this birth is the fruit of the karmas contracted in the birth of Kankodari by hiding the idol of Jina in the heap of rubbish. In the same birth-as Kanakodari's dasi, you were also accomplice to the idol - hiding act, so
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