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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsun Gyanmandir
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fig tree), a crow, a lion, a lotus, a seed and a pitcher. I am co they may signify inauspicious or evil future events."
These dreams were signs of future events. Interpreting and explai them Tirthankara Mahavira said, "You saw an elephant in the first dream It suggests that in future polite and devotional Jaina householders will become mad with pride and passion on getting short-term prosperi, wealth. They will behave like a mad elephant. They will never think renouncing the transient prosperity or wealth and accepting the vow of asceticism even in the face of terrible calamities and very hard times. And in case they took the vow of asceticism, they would not observe it rightly and sincerely. Only very few monks will observe it firmly, strictly and honestly."
"In the second dream, you saw a monkey. It signifies that in future, the nature of even great acharyas will be like that of a monkey. They will be as restless as a monkey. They will put forth very little spiritual effort and will be very careless and lazy in the observance of vows. Like a monkey they will be thoughtless, impudent and restless."
"In the third dream, you saw a milky tree (a fig tree). It signifies that in future the Jaina monks will become hypocrites and throng householders making donations with selfish motives. They will regard those monks firm and strict in the observance of monastic code, as lax in the monastic conduct. On the contrary, they will consider the monks careless and loose in the practice of monastic code to be firm and strict in the monastic conduct. Like thorny babul trees, the hypocritical Jaina monks will be in great majority.
"In the fourth dream, you saw a crow. It suggests that in future Jaina monks, in great number, will transgress the monastic code of conduct. Again, abandoning all rules and restrictions laid down for monks in the monastic code of conduct, they will take shelter in the heretical sects. In other words, they will break away from the main stream or tradition, will found Vasco heretical sects and subsects and will take shelter in them. Like crow, they will be cunning. They will indulge in fruitless sophistry and dialectics crows in making harsh and unpleasant sounds - 'ka' ka
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lion caught in difficult situation. It
"In the fifth dream, you saw a lion caught in difficu signifies that in future, Jaina religion propounded by an attachment omniscient saint and as brilliant and vigorous as a lion, wil
it and vigorous as a lion, will suffer a severe
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