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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
A part of parikar V. S. 12th Century
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
A Great Hero who won over All Calamities
"In Ladha country many times he did not come across a single village for many miles during his tour. Sometimes when he reached the outskirts of a village, the villagers came out of the village, beat him and drove him away. Sometimes they sat on his body and cut pieces of flesh from it. Sometimes they threw sand and dust at him. Sometimes they lifted him up and then threw him down on the ground. Sometimes they pushed him down from his seat. In spite of all these calamities and tortures, venerable Mahavira remained calm, polite and equanimous, renouncing all attachments to his body and abandoning all desires. Like a great hero fighting fearlessly in the front line on the battlefield, he endured all calamities firmly and calmly without any agitation or distress and toured regularly without any fear." (41-53)
Care for All Living Beings
"Venerable Mahavira had renounced drinking cold water two years before he took to asceticism. As he knew that earth, water, fire, air, moss, plants and mobile living beings were sentient, he toured with utmost care and vigilance so that none of them was killed or injured. He also knew that immobile living beings were born in the class of mobile living beings and mobile living beings were born in the class of immobile living beings, or that living beings afflicted with delusion were born in any class of living beings according to their karma - they wandered in the transmigratory existence according to their karma. Tirthankara Mahavira definitely knew that deluded living beings always bound new karmas. Having comprehended the nature and function of karmas, Tirthankara Mahavira renounced all vicious or evil activities." (11-5)
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