July 2022

The rainy season was coming to an end.It was the year of 527 B.C. Half of the last month had also gone by. The tail fortnight was on.Bhagwan Mahavir was fasting. He was not taking water even. His body had gone through 72 summers. Most of his life was spent in spreading spiritual awareness among

Once Bhagwan Mahavir was preaching, “To see the truth one needs inner and outer eyes. The outer truth is seen by the physical eyes and inner truth by the eyes of the mind.”To illustrate his point he gave an example through a story—“In a village there lived five blind men. They were friends. Once they

Bhagwan Mahavir believed in the equality of all human beings. He never had any faith in casteism. In his sangha all the lower castes and untouchables were welcome. As sangha munis they enjoyed equal treatment and respect. Some upper caste munis had doubts about the theory of equality. If by becoming a muni the physical

Bhagwan Mahavir gave eight advices for the good of the entire mankind. The messages are :1. Hear what you haven’t : Mahavir advises us to inculcate the habit of listening to what others have to say. One who does not listen he does not learn anything. The spoken words carry with them the valuable information

For Mahavir killing was not the only violence. His definition of violence included emotional hurt, exploitation, abuse and psychological torment. He said that violence was not only physical thing but mental as well. He thought that mental torture was more serious violence than physical harm. He classified violence as under :Religious Violence : All the

Now Bhagwan Mahavir’s aim was to spread the spiritual awareness among the people to raise their moral values. For that propose in mind he set up Sangha (Union body). Its aim was to eradicate the social evils through the change of heart and to bring harmony, peace and brotherhood in the society.He divided Sangha into

Mahavir did hard penance which is supposed to be twelve and a half years and a fortnight. His no penance had less than two fasts. During his fasting Mahavir even avoided water. During his total penance period of 4577 days he ate food on 350 days only. The rest of the days he kept fasts

Mahavir had to go through a lot of adverse situations in his spiritual quest but he overcame all the adversities with extreme courage.Once he was touring the tribal area. The locals were half civilised, wild, illiterate and without any manner. They drew pleasure in using foul language, abusing and tormenting others.When Mahavir went into a

In the second year of his spiritual quest he shifted from South Vachal to North Vachal. He had chosen the Kankhal Ashram route. On the way some shepherds accosted him to warn, “Holy Swami, you must not take this route.”“Why dear fellows?” Mahavir asked in surprise. “Doesn’t this route lead to North Vachal?”“It does Swamiji,

Mahavir was walking through the dense forest. The darkness was increasing making it quite eerie. His path was thorny. With single minded purpose he was moving on his thoughts beamed on his destination.Mahavir’s loin got caught in a thorny bush. He made no attempt to free it. He walked on and lost it to the

From the Jwatri Khanda royal garden Mahavir reached Kumargram. He no more cared for his food, living or sleep. On the last initiation day he had kept fast. The next day he could not remember that he needed to eat or he would not care.He went without food for two days yet it did not

After the passage of King Siddhartha and Queen Trishala to the other world the elder brother of Vardhman, Prince Nandivardhan had descended on the throne of Kundgram. Nandivardhan wanted his younger brother to share the responsibility of the state with him. But the younger brother had little interest in crowns and thrones. His mind was

This chapter of Vardhman’s life is differently told by a section of theologists.According to this version Vardhman did marry Yashodhara, the daughter of King Jitshatru of Kalinga Kingdom. They claim that he even sired a daughter by Yashodhara. The daughter later married a warrior named ‘Jamali’. Thus, Vardhman led a happy married life for a

The tilt of Vardhman towards the matters of spiritualism sometimes frightened the king and the queen. Their son was clearly on the road of the holy spiritual mission which meant that sooner or later they were going to lose their beloved son. But the two kept hoping against the hope.Their hopes rose as Prince Vardhman