Risabha Deva

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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RISABHA DEVA
rance throughout the night. The sleeping couple lay fast asleep locked in each other's embrace. That night's sleep did not have an awakening for them any more on this earth!
5. The Bhogabhumija
Bajrangha and Śrimati now appear in what is termed bhogabhumi. The term blogabhnmi is a compound of bhoga (enjoyment) and bhumi (land) and signifies the region where, like the heavens, the residents have not to earn their
bread by sweating in any sense. The regions where man have to work for their livelihood are termed karma bhumis (lands of action). Only those who have performed highly meritorious deeds are born in bhogabhumis. The true bhogabhumis are, no doubt, heavens alone, where the conditions of life are the most pleasant, and which yield the utmost of satisfaction to the senses. The bhogabhumis come after the heavens, and are far superior to our earth, in respect of the pleasures that the people enjoy there.
There is no sense of property or appropriation known in the bhogabhumis. Nature is too lavishly abundant for that to be necessary.
Bajrajangha and Srimati were born twins in the bhogabhumi known as Uttarakuru. In due course of time they grew up, became husband and wife, and began to enjoy the fruits of the merit acquired by the good deeds of thetr past life. They enjoyed