Risabha Deva

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

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THE SAMAVASARANA
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glory of the Tirthamkara. They clarify the directions for a considerable distance all round, making the ground look like a polished surface, devoid of thorns. They also translate the anakshari Speech of the God into different tongues, and place golden lotuses under His feet when He walks, raining flowers and fragrant water all the time! The cries of "jaya, jaya" (victory, victory) are also raised by the devas, men joining them in swelling the diapason.
All this, no doubt, reads like a romance, but as stated above the Tirthamkaras are not ordinary beings; nor are Their devotees all helpless and powerless like man.
The word samavasarann is derived from sama, meaning general, that is common, or a dispassionate state, and avasara, signifying opportunity, and meant the place where all have a common opportunity of acquiring the Wisdom Divine, or, in the alternative, where souls get the opportunity to attain to dispassion.
The WORLD TEACHER sat in Padmāsana ( a sitting posture), with His hands placed, one on the top of the other, in his lap, in the attitude of complete relaxation and rest, indicating that He had now nothing more left to sweat for! He was truly what is termed krita-kritya (one who has nothing further left to accomplish) !
Bharata, hearing the good tidings of the attainment by his Divine Father of Self-realization, came to worship Him. With reverence and affection and enthusiasm he offered adoration to the Master, and