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Bhavnabodh - Lokswarup Bhavana
the help of his big band of robbers, and he was thereafter sitting in a Brahmin's house. In that family a very agreeable and sweet feast of rice and milk was
prepared due to some household occassion of joy and affection. The children were sitting all round the pot of sweets to share them. This robber began to touch this pot, seeing which the household Brahmin's wife said, "O you! The top of all fools! Why do you touch the pot and make it unusable by your untouchable hands ? When you touch this pot, the food in it will be untouchable for us. Do you not realise this simple fact of common behaviour ?" Hearing these words, the robber got enraged and in the feat of anger, he killed that poor Brahmin's wife. The husband of the woman who has taking bath, came running and tried to save his wife, was also killed by this robber. At that time a cow from Brahmin's house ran to the robber and tried to hurt him by her horns but this cow was also killed by the robber. While the cow was breathing her last she gave birth to a calf. Seeing this calf trembling near the dying cow, this robber was filled with pity and he was overpowered by remonstrance for killing Brahmin family and the cow ! He began to hate himself by acknowledging very dangerous sins he committed in killing many lives. He was shocked as to when would he be absolved of all these sinful actions. He felt that it was better to work for soul, leaving the deadly life of robbery.
With this high aspiration, this robber plucked all his hair of the head out and with a strong desire, he went to the outskirts of the city and rested in one of the corners of the city in Kayotsarga. Because he had been the source of trouble and anxiety to the people of this whole city, he was toutured by all who passed by with pelting stones and bricks at him, by striking hilts of swords to his body, by showering him with dust and by hitting him with lumps of earth. Thus for about a month and a half, these people tried to give trouble and torture to that robber and then stopped further. Dradh Prahari endured all these tortures peacefully. Then completing Kayotsarga, he went to another corner of the city and stood there in the same way, adopting Kayotsarga. There also he endured peacefully all hurts and tortures from the people for one and half months. One by one he passed on to all the four corner ends of that city adopting Kayotsarga and endured tortures peacefully for one and a half months at each corner. Thus this robber controlled his anger and forgave all those who troubled him a lot in return of what they suffered at his hands. At the end of six months passed in this way of extreme forgiveness, he burned all his previous bondage and became totally free from this worldly ties. He relinquished all kinds of sense of mineness and he obtained incomparable absolute knowledge of soul saving and he enjoyed eternal happiness of liberation. This example will strengthen the Nirjara Bhavana.
Tenth Picture
LOKASWARUP BHAVANA (Contemplation of Knowing The Nature of Fourteen Worlds) Lokaswarup Bhavana :- Given below is a brief description of this Lokaswarup Bhavana. The nature of Lokaswarup or fourteen worlds can be compared with a man, standing with his legs wide open and with his hands on his waist. The shape of Lokaswarup is like that of a tapering dining plate or like a wooden pestle standing straight on the ground. Down below are tha Bhuvan Pati, Vyantar and Seven Hills. In middle part are situated two and a half peninsulas.
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