Risabha Deva

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

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been described above. Every one understood what was said in answering his question. As a matter of fact, the Presence of the Teacher in itself furnished an answer to a good many questions of the assemblage. He was Religion personified in Himself! He was also the embodiment of Faith, Knowledge and Conduct-of the Way, the Truth and the Life, as some have said! One had simply to see him to understand what Salvation meant. His Infinite Knowledge was reflected to a certain extent in the Halo of Glory which surrounded Him and which depicted the past seven lives of all living beings! To see Him was to see God, to hear Him was to be filled with heavenly joy.
THE SAMAVASARANA
The Lord's Discourse, which is gathered up by the Chief Disciples comprises twelve angas (departments), and is generally represented by a tree with twelve branches. It is this Tree of Wisdom Divine which is the real friend of the seeker after release from the pain and misery of embodied life.
Immediately after the divine preaching, many men and women determined to follow the Lord on the Path. The foremost among them was Vrisabha Sen one of the younger brothers of the Emperor Bharata. He became the first Apostle of the God. Soma as Prabha and Sreyansa, at whose Palace the World TEACHER had broken His first fast likewise became two of the Apostels. Brahmi, the elder daughter of the WORLD TEACHER, become the first female saint. Sundari second daughter of the Lord, also renounced