Tirthankar Mahavir and His Sarvodaya Tirth

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla, K C Lalwani
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA PRESENT LIFE
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and omniscience ? Without total omniscience how can there be the omniscience of categories? Oh Jinendra! Detachment and omniscience are not impossible states, for vices (like attachment) and covers (like enshrouding of knowledge) wax and wane, and anything that waxes and wanes may some day end This has happened to you, so that you are now fully detached and omniscient."
"Oh Jinendra! Minute objects, objects near and objects at a distance can surely be known by some sort of direct knowledge, for they can be known from inference And anything which can be inferred may be known by direct knowledge So omniscience is not impossible 5
"Oh Lord' That omniscience has taken shape in you All are anxiously waiting to receive the nectar-like shower of your words, in the same manner as the farmers wait for a rainfall after a dry Asadha. Now time has come for you to speak, and everyone expects it, so that people may understand the fundamentals and derive immense good for themselves from your words, unobstructed by sense perception and unambiguous."
The most pleasant surprise, however, was that as Indrabhuti Gautama was busy singing in praise, the divine words began to flow from the lips of the Lord. The Omkara sound was spreading out and the nature of the soul was getting revealed by that. It was virtually a shower of nectar The members of the audience were soaked in the joy It was the first day of the dark half of Sravana, the day on which the sermon by the Lord commenced That day is celebrated all over the country as the Vira Sasana Day upto this time.
Alongwith Indrabhuti Gautama, his disciples also joined the order of Mahavira
The desire of Indra was fulfilled The long expected divine words of the Lord had been tasted by everybody. As the greenery
4 Devāgama Stotra (Aptamīmānsā), śloka 4. 5 Ibid, sloka 5