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Who is Padmavati Mata |
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Padmavati Mata is a Yakshni of 23rd
Thirthankar Bhagwan
Parsvanath.
Bhagwan Parsvanath is worshipped the most in
Jain folks, and since
Dharnendra and
Padmavati played a very important role,
hence they are also worshipped. According to Jain
ideology, “Puja” is done only for Tirthankar,
their sermons, and monks who follow their path.
But, then also all Jain folks, address Yakshni
Padmavati
as “Mata” and worship her with equal respect, and just
to mark the same, the idols of Bhagwan Parsvanath are
made with snake hood on top, to represent
Dharnendra and
Padmavati. Few places even have a separate idol and
Temples of Mata Padmavati, and on top of
Padmavati
fangs, there is always a statue of
Parsvanath
Bhagwan.
Whenever any
disciple is in trouble, they remember Mata
Padmavati and
do worship and do pooja in her name. All these sacred
books are very famous and available in
Sanskrit and prakritik language.
On the same basis Acharya Kunth Sagar ji and
Yuva
Acharya Shri Gundhar Nandi have also edited and compiled
sacred text on Mata
Padmavati.
It is
believed that who all worship Mata Padmavati, gets
himself free from all miseries and sorrows. There are
lot of stories which reflect the miraculous power of the
idols. There are lot of stories and incidents related to
the same.
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Who are Yaksha & Yakshni |
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Jains
pay their respect and worship idols of
Jinas for three
reasons:
He has liberated Himself and attained
Moksha
He expounded the path of Liberation
To get an inspiration to become like Him
The only goal of Jainism is to free ourselves from the
worldly sufferings and attain liberation. Jin is a
liberated soul, freed of its material body and resides
in the top of the universe, called Siddha-loka. The
images of Jina's are intended to serve as reminders to
the faithful of the possibility of liberation; i.e.,
they served as role models for both the Jain laity,
guiding their ethical code of living, and for the
aspirant, Jin providing inspiration and a reminder that
spiritual liberation is an attainable goal. As a
detached soul, removed from this world, the Jin is
incapable of responding to a devotee's prayers or
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Link between Parsvanath & Padmavati |
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Once PArshvanath
was in deep meditation and in state of complete silence for
whole 4 months at a stretch. At that time, kal Samvar Dev
saw and recalled his enmity towards Parsvanath or
“Marubhuti” in one of his incarnations, in earlier life and
saw it as an golden opportunity to seek revenge. |
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Important Places of Padmavati |
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Goddess
PAdmavati has temples all across the globe, but few
temples are very famous like :-
1. Ahishetra Nagar situated in District Bareilly of
Uttar Pradesh – Place where KAal Samvar Dev has tried to
create nuisance, when Lord PArsvanath was in deep
meditation.
2. Ahishetra Nagar situated in District Bhilwara of
Rajasthan State – Where lot of ancient inscriptions are
present as a result it gives rise to a dual theory or
ideology that this can also be the place where Kaal
Samvar had tried to trouble Lord Parsvanath. |
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Interesting folklore of padmavati |
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One of the
very famous story is as follows:-
Once upon a time, there was a ruler in the Kingdom of
Varanasi by name of MAhipal, in the same city lived a
wealthy merchant by name of Matisagar with his wife
Gunsundri, and they had 7 sons who were very handsome
and intelligent, well mannered out of them 6 were marr
ied and the youngest one, gundhar was still a bachelor,
once upon a time, while wandeing in the jungle they met
a Digamber Jain Monk, and Gunsundri asked for a blessing
from the monk, Monk recited them about the benefits of
Jain darshan and told her to keep fast on 9 Sunday
consecutively, in name of Bhagwan Parsvanath, follow
celebasy and only have food once in a day that to
without salt and on completion of the fasts give lot of
offerings to the poor and needy, when the whole family
came to know of it everybody criticized her, for taking
vows to keep these kind of fasts, as a result all the
miseries fell on them and they became very poor . All
the 7 sons moved to Ayodhya in search of a livelihood,
and started working at the place of Merchant Jindutt.
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