The Current Living Tirthankara Shree Simandhar Swami The Current Living Tirthankara Shree Simandhar Swa | Page 19

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Upon their departure, the last of the twenty-four tirthankaras,
Lord Mahavir had said that since the cycle of twenty-four
tirthankaras was ending on Earth, there would be no more
tirthankaras on this planet for this time cycle. Lord Mahavir, asked
people to worship the living tirthankaras in Mahavideh Kshetra!
In Mahavideh Kshetra there are living tirthankaras. But people
have forgotten this and have continued to worship the tirthankaras
of the past. Lord Mahavir had told us everything.
Lord Mahavir had revealed everything! He knew that there
would be no more arihants on Earth, so whom would the people
worship? He therefore made public the knowledge about the
presence of Lord Simandhar Swami and nineteen other
tirthankaras in Mahavideh kshetra. Once this information was
divulged, it opened up this path of liberation. Acharya
Kundakunda also revived this message a few centuries ago.
The title of arihant is given to the One who exists in a living
form. The one who is siddha is without a body and has attained
nirvana or final liberation or moksha. These siddhas cannot be
called arihants after this.
When Does The Navkar Mantra Give Results?
That is why the instructions ‘to bow to the arihant’ have
come forth. People ask me who and where the arihant is. I tell
them to ‘bow down to Simandhar Swami. He is present in this
universe. Today he is arihant. Therefore bow and send your
obeisance to Him’. We can reap rewards if we worship the
arihants. Do it thus: ‘I am bowing down to the arihant, whoever
and wherever he may be in this entire universe’. This will yield
wonderful results.
Questioner: Are there not twenty tirthankaras moving