Life of Lord Mahavir

Life of Lord Mahavir Written & Edited by Minal Dagli. Lord Mahavira was born roughly around 599 B.C. His father was King Siddhartha and his mother was Queen Trishala. It is said that when the queen conceived Lord Mahavira, she had fourteen auspicious dreams that were a premonition of the greatness of the child that was to be born. The prosperity of the King grew day by day. The king attributed his success to his new born child and named him Vardhamana, which means "ever increasing". Vardhamana had a lavish childhood and lived like a proper prince. He did many great things in his childhood like saving his friend from a poisonous snake, fighting a monster, etc. that proved that he was no ordinary child. This earned him the name "Mahavira". He was born with all worldly pleasures and luxuries but somehow he was never attracted by them. He left all his worldly possessions including clothing and went into seclusion to become a monk. For twelve years, he deeply meditated in order to overcome his desires and cravings. He succeeded in going without food for days together, avoided clothes and never harmed another living creature even if it was an insect. Once while meditating, he was bitten by a deadly snake. Still he did not develop any kind of hatred for the snake and kept meditating. After twelve years, he attained divine knowledge and self-realization. His perception about everything was crystal clear and he paved the way for spiritual pursuit for future monks. The attainment of this spiritual knowledge was known as keval-jnana. Once he realized this knowledge, he traveled to the remotest places in India preaching whatever he had learnt. All through his wandering, he was barefoot and refrained from eating too often. His simple living and high morals attracted believers from all walks of life, which included kings, paupers, priests and untouchables. His teachings were based on the concept of self-realization for ultimate attainment of Moksha. He taught people how to gain freedom from misery, pain and the cycle of birth and death. On Diwali Lord Mahavira, the last of the jain Tirthankaras, achieved nirvana at Pavapuri. As per Jain custom, the principal follower of Mahavira, Ganadhar Gautam Swami, as well achieved absolute wisdom on this same day. Lord Mahavira was known to be omniscient, which means he knew everything about past and future.

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[TheUncannie]

What religion is this?

[minalrocks]

@TheUncannie Jainism

[SAMUELJACOB30000]

in youtube videos are uploaded abt various religions and in comment u see theres always a war going on, kos all are busy in showing themself as the greatest, however we can use it as a knowledge abt diff faiths and we must respect it

[SAMUELJACOB30000]

the diff between jainism , budhism compared to islam and christianity is they belive in reincarnation but we believe in resurrection, jainism belive theres no creator world was self created and it will stay forever, but our belief it was created by the creator, there are lot of differences but all religion belive in 1 common thing is to love and respect all humans, all teach good moral values

[talibanninja1]

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[hirensanghvi1102]

Pls arrange download system. Great work.

[ladhkay]

Jainism is not only an awesome religion but also one of the best ways to live life to the maximum!!!

MAHAVIR BHAGWAN KI JAI!!!

[shoebsharfuddin]

@gethitesh07 mahavira who is very good is made by allah only i also respect all the religions but i saw confidence in islam we all the people are blind people may allah bless you and all to us who are non muslims and muslims thank you gethite i was saying the truth

[shoebsharfuddin]

@gethitesh07 throw stones on them put he was very patienter then jibreel came and told that i will kill those enemies of you throwing mountns but md said that i dont want to see these people getting die i want to spread the knowledge of quran which tells the right and killing means not that killing enemies said that we will fight but md said no then the enemies attacked him by the blessings of allah md won and vardhamana

[shoebsharfuddin]

@gethitesh07 its impossible because mahavira only told that one man will come who will bring peace to the world its mahammad saw you know and in quran there are many rules and essence right faith right knowledge right action there are .once upon a time mohammad went to spread islam but all the enemies

[cosmicSCIFI]

@108KP ye FANATICS , hypocratic , EGOISTIC coward aise hi hote hai. AHIMSA ka nakab utarte hi, Jai Jinendra ke naam pe NAUTANKI , DRAMA karenge aur phir se MASK pahen lenge...

[maxmax444zoom]

ALL religions are great. Each and Every Human is great and divine.

- Radhe Krishna, Jai Jinendra, Jai Shri Ram, Radhe Radhe, Assalamualaikum, JAI HO......