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Lord could be heard distinctly all round, and it was also being rendered into different spoken tongues by the devas, in different parts of the Great Hall.
The Lord's Discourse described the mysteries of the world in plain terms. It dealt with the nature of the existing substances and their attributes ; and showed how different properties came into existence when substances' got intermingled. Amongst the substances the most important are Spirit and Matter, whose fusion is the cause of all the misery that there exists in the world. The Lord described the true tattvas (essentials of knowledge), and gave a detailed description of the entire subject of bondage and release of the souls. The knowledge imparted, constitutes what is known as Sruta Jnāna, and comprised all the eleven angas and the fourteen purvas of the Science of Salvation, as Religion may be termed. Every one understood what the WORLD TEACHER said; no one was mystified ; no one misled! Tirthamkaras do not indulge in metaphor and parable, and never resort to allegory, to hide the import of a doctrine. Those who were present were filled. Their questions were answered there and then, in the un-akshari speech which has been described above. Every one understood what was said in
