tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3631850758769256262024-03-14T09:20:37.318+05:30JainTemplesJain Templeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14890627797616394910noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363185075876925626.post-89116438837529048122011-01-29T13:35:00.000+05:302011-01-29T13:35:50.631+05:30Sambhavnath Bhagwan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>SAMBHAVANATHA</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vTgu5T2IMdE/TUPJ0UhdFCI/AAAAAAAAAAg/4UjBIFe8EPg/s1600/sambhavanath.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vTgu5T2IMdE/TUPJ0UhdFCI/AAAAAAAAAAg/4UjBIFe8EPg/s1600/sambhavanath.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">श्री संभवनाथ भगवान </div><br />
<br />
His parents king Jitari and queen Senadevi were ruling at Sravasti in the eastern half of Bharata - varsha. He was born on the 4th day of the bright half of Margasirsha with a horse as his emblem. Because of a bumper crop (samba), he was named SAMBHAVANATHA.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />
On the attainment of youth, he was duly married and enthroned. One day while he was seated on the throne, he felt the need for renunciation. "Rare is the acquistion of the human frame," he thought, "and unlucky is he who uses it not in the upliftment of the spirit." Meanwhile the AUKANTIKA gods appeared and reminded him of his mission. He was initiation fast by an offering from king Surendra. On the completion of penance and hard life, he attained the knowledge of the free. He established the four orders and named 102 GANADHARAS.He attained liberation on the Sammeta Sikhara by a holy fast, followed by a thousand monks in a similar course.</div>Jain Templeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14890627797616394910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363185075876925626.post-39511838586195488002011-01-29T13:23:00.001+05:302011-01-29T13:24:10.261+05:30Ajinatha Bhagwan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vTgu5T2IMdE/TUPGyIgNYsI/AAAAAAAAAAc/thDAPN5b_Rk/s1600/Ajitnath+Bhagwan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> AJITANATHA</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vTgu5T2IMdE/TUPGyIgNYsI/AAAAAAAAAAc/thDAPN5b_Rk/s1600/Ajitnath+Bhagwan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vTgu5T2IMdE/TUPGyIgNYsI/AAAAAAAAAAc/thDAPN5b_Rk/s1600/Ajitnath+Bhagwan.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">श्री अजितनाथ भगवान</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"> A<span style="font-family: inherit;">jitanatha, like Rishabha, was born in the Ikshvaku line and was therefore directly descended from the first Lord. The ruling monarch at Ayodhya at this time was Jitasatru and his queen was Vijayadevi. The king had a brother, Sumitra (Vasumitra) whose wife was Yasomati. By a striking coincidence, both Vijayadevi and Yasomati dreamt the same fourteen dreams, as is usual with a would-be TIRTHANKARA's mother. The seers were called in. As per their perdiction, the former would give birth to a TIRTHANKARA and the latter to a CHAKRAVARTI-monarch.</span></div><a name='more'></a><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
The princes were duly delivered, by Vijayadevi on the eighth day of the bright half of Magha and by Yasomati during the same night. The occasions of the TIRTHANKARA's conception and birth were duly celebrated by the gods. The elder prince who bore the mark of an elephant was named Ajitanatha and the younger one Sagara. On the attainment of proper age Sagara was entrusted to a teacher for his education but this was not necessary for Ajita, since a would-be TIRTHANKARA needed no formal schooling. The two princes were then married.<br />
<br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Now it was time for the king to lay down the rein of office. His brother Sumitra too expressed a similar desire but he was persuaded by the crown-prince to stay in the palace as a monk-by-instinct (BHAVA-JATI). Ajita was now crowned king and Sagara was made the crown-prince. On the completion of his career as a king, which indeed was very illustrious because of the righteousness with which Ajita governed, the time was now ripe for his renunciation. He was duly notified of it by the gods. He then passed on the responsibility of the state to the crown-prince Sagara who reluctantly took it up and spent a year in making gifts out of riches supplied by the gods. On the completion of a year, he was taken in a procession to the Sahasramravana where he was duly initiated into monkhood. He broke his initiation fast by accepting an offering from king Brahmadatta.<br />
<br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Then started his career as a monk, a very hard course for 12 years, during which Ajitanatha wandered through dense forestsand beautiful parks, reached mountain summits and passed by charming lakes. Sometimes he would be crossing dreary deserts bearing with perfect calm the rigours of summer,winter and rains.During these wanderings he practised all sorts of austerities. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;">At last he came to the same park where 12 years earlier he had started his spiritual career, sat down in meditation and attained higher and higher levels till at last he acquired the knowledge of the free.The congregation was duly held with the Lord offering his sermons to the entire gathering. This was followed by the full initiation of his uncle Sumitra who had been living as a BHAVA-JATI in the palace. Ajitanatha then established the forufold order(TIRTHA) named 95 GANDHARAS. When at last the time of his entering liberation drew near, he came to the Sammeta Sikhara and attained it a after a month's holy fast.</span></div>Jain Templeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14890627797616394910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363185075876925626.post-87288425558168310362011-01-29T13:14:00.000+05:302011-01-29T13:14:33.253+05:30Adinath Bhagwan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:#0400;
mso-fareast-language:#0400;
mso-bidi-language:#0400;}
</style> <![endif]--><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> RISHABHADEVA (ADINATHA)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vTgu5T2IMdE/TUPEBytzlbI/AAAAAAAAAAY/i-jnsL-q_JU/s1600/Adinath.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vTgu5T2IMdE/TUPEBytzlbI/AAAAAAAAAAY/i-jnsL-q_JU/s1600/Adinath.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> श्री आदिनाथ भगवान् </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
The first tirthankara of the Jainas, Rishabha, is not only the founder of the Jain four-fold order, but is also the originator of the social organisation, the first lord of the earth and also the first to renounce the world to embrace and indicate the spiritual path.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><a name='more'></a><br />
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> In the Jaina view, the advent of the first TIRTHANKARA became necessary in that phase of the</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">time-cycle when lapses just started appearing on the part of human beings and when due to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the growing barrenness of the subsistence trees(KALPA-BRIKSHAS), food was becoming more </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">difficult to get. So some leader of men was necessary to establish order and to impart </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">training in the art of living.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We need not go into the details of the previous birth experiences of Rishabha nor into </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">his ancestry which consisted of a line of twins who later lived as man and wife. His own </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">parents were patriarch (KULAKARA) Nabhi and his consort Marudevi. His conception and birth </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">were duly celebrated by the celestial beings. He was born on the eighth day of the dark half </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of Chaitra. As was the natural order of the time, along with him was born his sister and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">would-be consort Sumangala. The boy was named Rishabha, since he bore the mark of a bull </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on his thigh and his mother too saw a bull in her first dream. When he was one year old, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">seated on the laps of his father, he received a piece of sugarcane (IKSHU) as a homage from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Indra, the leader of gods, by virtue of which the line took the name as Ikshvaku. At the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">ripe age he was married to his partner-at-birth Sumangala and also another Sunanda who, so </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">goes the story, had lost her partner-at-birth in an accident and was recovered weeping from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the wilderness. In fact, the marriage between Rishabha and Sunanda was the first ceremonial </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">marriage outside a partner-at-birth and, it appears, was so ordained in order to introduce </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the ceremonial. Prior to this, twins, initially brother and sister, used to live as man and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">wife on the attainment of youth without any social ceremony. Then Rishabha, in deference to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the wishes of his people, ascended the throne as the first monarch, his ancestors being all </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">patriarchs by consent, without full royal authority. It is difficult to say if Rishabha's </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">assumption of office bore any semblance with Rousseau's SOCIAL CONTRACT. At the divine </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">order, a city was then constructed to be his capital. Initially clled Vineeta because of the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">obeisance of the people to their first lord, the city later became famous as Ayodhya.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Followed by a large retinue of monks, Rishabha now took to a wandering career, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">sleepless and without food and drink. The lay people did not know how to make an offer of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">food and drink to a monk. The monks that were following him were all exhausted. Utterly </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">starved and breathless, they broke away from him, took fruits and roots from a forest and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">drank the necterine water from Ganga. But the Lord was perturbed and thus a year rolled off. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">He was now at Hastinapura and he broke his fast here with cane juice offered by his own </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">grandson Sreyansa Kumara who was reigning here. For, at the very sight of the Lord the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">prince could know what type of food was acceptable to a monk and the mode of offer and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">accordingly he made the offer which was accepted. This event took place on the third day in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the second half of Vaisakha when the gods arranged a non-ending shower of gems to celebrate </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the occassion which henceforth became known as the AKSHAYA-TRITIYA day. This day is held </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">auspicious by all the Indians--Jaina as well as Hindu. After the Lord's departure, Sreyansa </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Kumara erected a holy altar at the place where the Lord had broken his fast and engaged </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">himself to worship it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Once, in the course of his wanderings, the Lord reached the kingdom of Bahuvali. He </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">halted in a park outside the city of Taxila. The king having received the news of the Lord's </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">arrival gave orders for a full decoration of the town and an elaborate reception. All this, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">however, took time and when at last the king reached the park, the Lord had already </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">departed. This was highly distressing and the king was penitent. The ministers prevailed </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">upon him to have a DARSANA of the Lord's holy footprints and to feel himself to be in the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">presence of the Lord. Bahuvali did accordingly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Even the order of ganadharas (spiritual stalwarts who were named leaders of different </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">ganas or church-segments under the lord )was named by the lord. This order was headed by </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Rishabhasena, who was Bharata's son. Then he gave the fundamentals of the Jaina religion-the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">SUTRAS, SUTRARTHAS, DRAVYAS, GUNAS, PARYAYAS and NAYAS. In this way, the Lord established the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">TIRTHA and equipped it with complete tenets, because of which he became the First TIRTHANKARA. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">When Rishabha was at the height of spiritual power, Bharata, by dint of his world </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">conquest, was at the acme of his temporal power. A CHAKRA-RATNA was born in his armoury. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">With the help of this he conquerred the six segments of the land and became a </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">CHAKRAVARTI-monarch. It was from him, so goes the tradition, that the country took its name </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">as BHARATA-VARSHA. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">With his earthly mission nearing completion, the Lord gave up his mortal frame through </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">fasting. His final moment was spent on the Ashtapada mountain (Mount Kailasa). This was an </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">occasion of great sorrow for all categories of beings, a great event for the universe, the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">exit of a TIRTHANKARA. The Lord had left behind a huge family of spiritual stalwarts who </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">were to uphold the Lord's path on the earth and propagate it to generations yet to be born.</span></div></div></div>Jain Templeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14890627797616394910noreply@blogger.com0