SHREE SUPARSHWANATH BHAGWAN: LIFE STORIES OF THE SEVENTH TIRTHANKARA

Shree Suparshwanath Bhagwan was the seventh Tirthankara of the present time cycle. His symbol is Swastik. Matang Yaksh Dev and Shanta Yakshini Devi are His Shaasan Dev and Shaashan Devi, respectively. Come, let’s read the life stories of Lord’s past two births and of His birth as a Tirthankara.

Shree Suparshwanath Bhagwan – The Past Births

In Ghatki Khand’s Purva Mahavideh Kshetra, in Tilak Vijay’s Kshempuri Nagri, there lived King Nandisen. He was very helpful by nature; He would extensively serve the poor and sick people. He had dedicated his entire life to the service of others. He had a lot of compassion; seeing any needy and poor, he himself would reach out to them out of sheer compassion. Despite being a king, he would himself serve the needy, unhappy, poor, helpless and sick people. His intention was to give happiness and peace to people. Due to selfless service, the king bound the Tirthankara gotra.

He renounced the kingdom and took Diksha. While doing selfless service, he left the mortal body. Thereafter, the king reincarnated in the sixth heaven.

Shree Suparshwanath Bhagwan – Birth, Diksha and Keval Gnan

From the sixth heaven, the Soul of King Nandisen took birth as a Tirthankara at King Pratishth and Queen Prithvi’s place in the Bharat Kshetra’s Varanasi Nagri. When the Lord was conceived, there came peace in the entire world; peace spread even in hell.

After marriage, the Lord ruled the kingdom for few years, and then upon the request of the celestial deities, took Diksha. After Diksha, He attained Keval Gnan. Thereafter, the Lord started giving Deshna. Listening to His Deshna, people could see tremendous transformation in their lives.

Deshna – Anyatva Bhaavna

Shree Suparshwanath Bhagwan gave a very beautiful Deshna on the Anyatva bhaavna. We get engrossed in things that we are attached to and infatuated with; we believe that real happiness lies in them only; and we consider them to be everything! We remain involved and absorbed in the body, beauty, worldly happiness, comforts and luxuries that we’ve got. As a result, we end up losing the entire splendour of our Soul.

While remaining absorbed in the external riches of the world, we miss out the internal bliss of the Soul, which is Moksha-vaibhav, which is Moksha-lakshmi. To attain that Moksha-lakshmi when such preaching of the Tirthankara Lords or Gnanis deeply touches our heart, it pierces through all our veils (of karma), and we then experience our Moksha-vaibhav, our Atma-vaibhav (the bliss of the Soul). After experiencing that bliss, each and every worldly happiness seems insipid, just as tea tastes sugarless after eating jalebi.

Shree Suparshwanath Bhagwan – Nirvana

Shree Suparshwanath Bhagwan had 95 Ganadhars (chief disciples of a Tirthankara). In His sangha, He had lakhs of Sadhus and Sadhvis. For the salvation of this world, the Lord travelled from one place to another. He attained Nirvana from the Samet Shikharji Mountain.

The life story of Lord Suparshwanath gives us a very lofty message for progressing towards the path of liberation, and using our mind, body and speech for the benefit of others.