Tale of Shree Nabhakraj

Author(s): Merutungacharya, Gunsundarvijay
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust

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systematic manner as a Jain Sadhu (monk) from a proper guru with great pomp and show and by performing systematic-riteritualful manner. Religious soul always has a slogan in the mind'HUMAN-BIRTH HAS ONLY ONE IMPORTANCE. NO (ULTIMATE) LIBERATION / FREEDOM WITHOUT SELF-RESTRAINT-SELF CONTROL.' The King Samudrapal became muni. He then performed-observed fasting for 21 days by controlling the Kashayas (i.e. inner vices) and completed the penance in a beautiful manner. After his death here, his soul took birth as an anutterdev (a type of deity) in a viman (plane) namely Sarvärthsiddh, and after death there, his soul got birth in Aarya province and noble family. and performed sainthood in beautiful manner and then reached the state of infinite happiness i.e. Salvation-Liberation-Moksha-Mukti-state of no rebirth. (Yes! say moksha, or Mahããnad or Nector or Siddhi, Kailvalya (Omni-ness), Apunarbhav (state of no further re-birth), Nirvan (last holy death), Liberation, it is all one and the same.)
WHAT HAPPENDED TO THE YOUNGER BROTHER SINH?
On the otherside, Sinh - Who had poisoned the ears of the King to wrongfully harass his brother Samudra, heard in the Tamlipti town that his elder brother had disclosed the truth regarding the devdravya etc. to the King, and upon realizing the truth - the King himself honoured Samudra and gave farewell for the pilgrimage to Shree Shatrunjaya- the top holy place of pilgrimage.
Now, Sinh got doubtful and ashamed by his own sin and as such humidly took his entire wealth and all the family members and reached the bate Sinhal in a boat. There, he obtained a favour of the King. With an intent of getting ivory, he came into a dense forest. He could not get anything else there, but he got living elephants killed by the hunters. And thus, he got heaps of ivory. Yes! Even the wealth earned sinfully, has a dreadful capacity that it gives thoughts and ideas only to do further sins. Soul alone causes bonds of karma, the fruit of those karma is faced by it alone, even the birth-death cycle is also of the soul alone and it is the soul alone which goes beyond the birth (i.e. in next re-birth). Who will explain this ultimate truth to him?
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