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like these five elements in this world. Whatever we experience in this world about these elements is as misleading as a reflection of the Moon in water. Every thing is non-existent.
When Pandita Vyakta approached Samana Bhagavān Mahavira he addressed him thus
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पञ्च भूतेषु तथा संदिग्धं व्यक्तसंज्ञकं विबुधम् ।
ऊचे विशुर्यथास्थं वेदार्थ किं न भावयसि १ ॥ १ ॥
1. Pancasu bhūtésu tatha sandigdham Vyaktu-sanjnakam vibudham;
Uce vibhu-r-yathāstham Védārtham kim na bhāvayasi?
1. The Lord (Śramana Bhagavan Mahavira) told the learned man Vyakta who had a doubt about the five elements, Why do you not trace out the exact meaning of the verses of the Védas.
Śramaņa Bhagavan Mahavira, then, removed his doubts by explaining the correct interpretation of Verses of the Védas. He took a Diksā,-Initiation,-at the hands of Śramaņa Bhagavan Mahavira along with his five hundred pupils.
Gaṇadhara Vyakta was fifty years old when he renounced the world He knew the various works of Jain Scriptures as he had several Labdhis and twelve years later 1-e at the age of sixty-two, he acquired -Kévala Jñana,-Perfect Knowledge. Then he remained a Kévali for eighteen years, and when he acquired a Moksa Pada,-the State of Final Emancipation-from all museries, he was eighty years old. He died at Rājagriha during the life-time of Śramaņa Bhagavan Mahavira.
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