Risabha Deva

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

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RISABHA DEVA
activities), He passed into nirvana, in the space of time required to articulate the five vowels a,e,u, ri and li! The next instant marked the appearance of another Perfect One to grace the Holy Land of the Abode of Gods in nirvana at the top of the Universe!
The Perfect Souls that reach Nirvana are free from birth, death, old age, disease, grief, pain, hunger, thirst and worry. They have no bodies, and do not sweat. Pure Spirits by nature, They enjoy uninterruptedly, and for ever, all those incomparably divine attributes and privileges which appertain to the simple substance of Their Being. It is impossible to enumerate all the virtues of even such common substances as silver and gold, and is equally impossible to count or describe all the wonderful properties of the Soul-substance ! The Siddhas (Gods) enjoy Omniscience, Immortality and unthinkable, unsurpassed Bliss; They see and hear all, as if they were present everywhere! They have no loves and hatreds left in them, and do not grant boons to friends or show disfavour to foes. Their divine Example, Their Teachings and Their Footprints are left for those who, disgusted with the world, seek a way out of this Cannibal's (Death's) Cave! Those who walk in Their Footsteps become in all respects like Them as regards the innate Divinity of the Spirit substance, and speedily reach the Holy Siddha Sila, to sit by Them! The first WORLD TEACHER of the current hall-cycle of time, too, is now living in the Siddha