Risabha Deva

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

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and joys. At last one day he discovered a white hair in his head and taking it to be the messenger and herald of old age, immediately decided to leave the world. He appointed Arkakirti to succeed him, and became a saint. The effect of his growing vairagya (detachment) immediately manifested itself in the acquisition of the subtler mental perception; and he even destroyed his inimical Karmas within an antaramahurta (less than 48 minutes' time), attaining to omniscience, as the reward of his supreme sense of disgust for the world. He then moved about teaching and preaching the Noble Truth to the suffering humanity, and at last attained to the purity of Spiritual nature, that is nirvana!
RISABHA DEVA
Bahubali had already attained Nirvana from the Mount Kailasa, and Vrisabha Sen, the Apostle, and the other Apostles and many of the Saints also attained nirvana from different places on different dates. Those of the Holy Saints who did not reach nirvana at once were reborn in heavens where also went the pious householder who followed the Lord Risabha Deva. The ladies of the sangha (community), too, re-incarnated in the heavens, according to their merit, and rid themselves of the female form! Many of them have already reached nirvana in the ages that have flown by since! Others are bound to reach it for certain; for it is characteristic of the true Dharma (Religion) that whosoever is once moved by it, for howsoever fleeting a moment it might be, is sure to be attracted to the Right Path one day or another, and thus reach the GOAL of PERFECTION and Joy!