Parabels of Mahavir

Author(s): Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Shri Kiran Publishers

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A FEW WORDS
This is one of the most celebrated Parables of Bhagwan Mahavir, the last prophet of the religion of the Jains.
Bhagwan Mahavir was a contemporary of the Lord Gautam Buddha who was the younger of the Two.
All such parables possess deep insight and an almost unfathomable depth. One has to read between the events and words they embody, if their inmost significance and meaning are to be captured, even if it be somewhat vaguely.
This parable is unique, one of the most unique among Jain parables. Meditating one-pointedly on it, one awakens the psyche, realising that it is stained richly with the glow of Divinity.
It is, in short, a hint at the human will sublimated to the point of its marriage with the Divine Will.
“The Impossible Vow" deals with its final fulfilment rendering the impossible possible through Vasumati, the Princess, who, after months of unspeakable trial and tribulation. succeeds in attaining liberation crowning her Head of the Nuns of Mahavir's Religious Order.