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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 śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira he was addressed thus:
पञ्चसु भूतेषु तथा संदिग्धं व्यक्तसंज्ञकं विवुधम् । ऊचे विभुर्यथास्थं वेदार्थ किं न भावयसि ? ॥ १ ॥
1. Panchasu bbūtéshu tathā sandigdham Vyakta sangnakam vibudham; Uché vibbu r-yathāst ham Védārtbam kim na bhāvayasi?
1. The Lord (śramaņa Bhagavān Mabāvīra ) 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 Vedas.
Śramaņa Bbagavān Mabāvīra then removed his doubts by explaining the correct interpretation of the Verses of the Védas. He took a Dikśā, Initiation, at the hands of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra along with his five hundred pupils.
Gañadhara Vyakta was fifty years old when he renounced the world. He studied the various works of Jain Scriptures and twelve years later i-e at the age of sixty-two, he acquired # mia Kévala Gnāna, Perfect Knowledge. Then be renained a Kévali for eighteen years and when he acquired A1 TT Moksha Pada, the State of Final Emancipation from all miseries, he was eighty years old. He died at tiny Rājagriha during the life-time of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira,
