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Svayambhūstotra
twelfth day of the bright half of the month of Āśvina - āśvina śukla dvādaśī – to Queen Padmā and King Sumitra.
The Lord's height was 20 dhanuşa.
After spending 7,500 years as youth (kumārakāla), Lord Munisuvratanātha ruled His kingdom for 15,000 years (rājyakāla). He then renounced all worldly pursuits and adopted the path that leads to the destruction of all karmas, virtuous and evil. The Lord spent 11 months (chadmasthakāla) performing karma-destroying austerities and then attained the all-embracing knowledge - Omniscience (kevalajñāna). The time period of Lord's renunciation (samyamakāla) was 7,500 years out of which He spent 7,499 years and 1 month as Omniscient, possessor of all-embracing and infinite knowledge that transcends the senses, preaching the Doctrine of Truth to the bhavya souls. This Doctrine of Truth is beyond the experience and intellect of those who have not attained omniscience and, therefore, their words are fallacious and do not constitute Reality.
Lord Munisuvratanātha lived for 30,000 years and attained liberation (nirvāņa) from Sammeda Sikhara on the twelfth day of the dark half of the month of Phālguna - phālguna krşņa dvādaśī. The released pure Soul of the Lord, rid of eight kinds of karmas, possessed of eight supreme qualities and having a form slightly less than the last body, immediately darted up to the summit of the universe to dwell there for ever, immersed in eternal bliss.
Chief among the Lord's Apostles (ganadhara) was sage Malli Svāmī.
O Lord Munisuvratanātha! My soul gets rid of passions, the chief cause of bondage with karmic matter, through absorption in Your Supreme Attributes.
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