Mahavir | Free Book
Conqueror of the Self
Why do we suffer? What is the way out of suffering? What is the
purpose of life? And what is the ultimate truth?Vardhamaan Mahavir,
the last Jain Tirthankara, did not begin his life as a saint. A prince
and a householder, he renounced the world as a youth, seeking to
realize himself.Why would a man leave his kingdom and family to wander
naked across impossible terrain for twelve long years, exposing
himself to hard penance and the harshest circumstances? Was his
journey worth the pain he suffered and perhaps inflicted on those
closest to him?Such questions plague the mind of Priyadarshini,
Mahavir’s young daughter, as she journeys with her mother, Queen
Yashoda, to meet the man the world knows as the enlightened one, but
in whom she sees only the father who abandoned her. Yet, as the girl
grapples with her contempt for him, she is drawn into a deeper
spiritual inquiry. In visions her mother shares with her,
Priyadarshini traverses Mahavir’s past lives, and eventually arrives
at a profound understanding of the true essence of the man who
conquered the world by conquering himself.Drawing on rarely accessed
Jain texts, Mahavir is an inspirational tale of the making of a
spiritual master that raises age-old questions as relevant to the
modern reader as they were in Mahavir’s time.
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