Risabha Deva

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

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GLIMPSES ALONG LIFE'S JOURNEY II faculties and powers), and enjoys unparalled splendour and pomp.
Keśava (Srimati's soul) also became Pratendra ( Prati=deputy + Indra) in this very heaven on the termination of his life in Susimā. He had practised austerities after the death of Subidhi, and was reward. ed by a birth in the sixteenth heaven. The dignity of a Pratendra which he attained was almost just as high as that of the Indra himself,
9. Emperor Bajranabhi All greatness is the result of virtue actively practised by the soul, in some form. Most wonderful good luck results from the observance of the rules of piety and virtue when obs:rvel in th3 Right Way. Right Faith in itself is the greatest of boons, and those who acquire it attain to the high. est positions in life, are secure against degradation in transmigration, and speedily get rid of the liabil. ity to repeated birth, and deaths, in the course of a few lives! The ruisou for ali this is that the old kind of bonds are not forged by the soul after the acquisition of the true insight or Faith, and the practising of rigid self-denial destioys the existing chains of thraldom in the course of a few lives (reincarnations.) The re-incarnations, too, that are undergone after the acquisition of the Right Faith, are all very joyous and delightful, and steadily raise up the will-power to defy suffering and mishap, inspite of the pleasures they afford one in the heavens and on earth.