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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
श्रुतसागर
मार्च-२०१५ person's identity and got failed, Indrabhuti began to compare him and identify him with the elements of Nature. Indrabhuti observed:
क्षारो वारिनिधिः कलकंकलुषश्चन्द्रो रविस्तापकृत्, पर्जन्यश्चपलाश्रयोध्रपटलादृश्यः सुवर्णाचलः। शून्य व्योम रसाद्विजिह्वविधृता स्वर्धामधेनुः पशुः, काष्ठ कल्पतरूदृषत्सुरमणिस्तत्केन साम्यं सताम्? ।।
One cannot compare him either with the sea, the Moon, the Sun, the clouds, the sky or the earth. Each one though famous and deep, pleasant, bright, charged, clear and mounted respectively, have some defect or the other. The sea is salty, the moon is blemished; the sun is too hot and torturous; the clouds are empty at times; the sky is invisible and the earth by all means needs a support. Whereas the one before his eyes is devoid of all defects and shortcomings. But His personality seems to be as deep as the sea, as pleasant as the moon, as bright as the sun, as charged as the thundering clouds and is also not a vaccum like the sky and does not need any support as the Earth needs one. He is also unlike Kamadhenu, Kalpavraksha or Indramani' for Kamadhenu is an animal, Kalpavraksha belongs to the plant kingdom and Indramani is altogether a non-living entity.
Indrabhuti tried very hard to find someone or something in this world with which he could compare the solemn person before him. He found none among the heavenly beings and the elements of Nature. He seemed to be beyond all elements. Indrabhuti then turned to the surroundings of Lord Mahavira and was astonished at what he observed to be the effects of the deep resoluted power of the speech of the Lord. । सारंगी सिंहशावं स्पृशति सुतधिया नन्दिनी व्याघ्रपोतम्
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