Happy Mahavir Jayanti
Mahavir Jayanti
marks the birthday of the 24th Tirthankara Mahavira (~ 599 BC),
founder of the modern Jain religion
and the last in the galaxy of 24 Tirthankaras.
Jaijinendra
to
all of you
from Berlin
with love and amity
Editors
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Bhagavan Mahavira spent twelve years in the sadhana of meditation and self-discipline. He spent another six months and the seventh month was running. It was the tenth day of bright half of the lunar month of Vaisakha. It was the time of afternoon and the vijaya muhurta had arrived, Bhagavan Mahavira was camping on the river Rjubaluka on the outskirts of the village Jambhiyagrama. He sat in the posture of a meditator in the rays of the sun near a sala tree in the farm of Syamak. He had been fasting and had not taken even water for the last two days. In the state of deep meditation, he established himself in perfect equanimity, extirpated the karmas responsible for delusion, ignorance, imperception and spiritual weakness and at once he attained the state of kaivalya or omniscience.
from
Bhagavan Mahavira - 4.01 – The Accomplishment Of Sadhana
by
Acharya Ganadhipati Tulsi