Tale of Shree Nabhakraj

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

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Shree Mahaveer Vardhamãn God says - Oh Gautam! - by misappropriation of the Devdravya and by keeping sexual relation with others' woman, such soul gets 7th Hell for 7 times (= 7 births.) (Updeshsãr)
- The soul which destroys the thing - object etc. pertaining to the God, who does not contribute for Devdravya after his promise to do so, becomes indifferent or negligent upon the lossdestruction of the Devdravya-such soul also wanders in the world (Sansãr)( Updesh Saar.)
- The re-births or sansãr or cycle of deaths and births of one who protects the Devdravya-gets reduced & minimised and one who multiplies & increases the Devdravya-such soul gains the state of Teerthankar i.e. the God (Sookta Muktavalee = A Sacred book) Appendix (4) YOU-YOURSELF ARE THE CAUSE OF
YOUR SORROWS : A Great Jain poet says -
No one else is the Cause of joy and sorrow of a soul. All the karmas committed by the soul has to be suffered-facednecessarily by the soul itself.
- All the living beings experience the fruits of their own prior births' karmas, (deeds) whatever bad-ill-wrong-sad thing occurs to one, has the root-cause in its' own past karmas.
- Wicked acts done earlier, doubtlessly become later the cause of sorrows to each life/each soul.
- "Some one gives sorrow to someone" - this decision thought is totally false. The soul suffers only for its' own karmas.
- Who suffers for uncommitted sinful karma? Nobody. Whose karma has been nullified automatically? No ones'. Then, why the soul feels sorrow while suffering for the karmas which are committed by it's own self?
- Souls by themselves commit the karmas. But, at the time of the maturity of those karmas to bear/give it's fruits - the souls become dependent. [(Hence, be alert at the time of commitment 53...