Shree Suparshva Nath 7th Jain Tirthankar

Shree Suparshva Nath
7th Jain Tirthankar

Birth and Childhood of Suparshvanath

Tirthankaras will have many previous births, and with the Tirthankar Nam karma, they will live their life as a Tirthankara to attain Nirvana.

Present age Tirthankara Suparshvanath was born as King Nandisen of Kshetrapuri in his previous incarnation. He was extremely piously liberated, and because of his thorough penances and control, he came to this world as an Arihant. Arihant means destroyer. Tirthankaras help humanity to destroy the bad internal qualities and hence called as Arihant. He got Diksha to come to this world as Tirthankara in his next birth.

Suparshvanath’s soul descended into the womb of Queen Prithvi Devi of Varanasi. The King of Varanasi Pratishthasen was facing many hardships with his neighboring kingdoms. All were attacking the country and the king Pratishthsen. He was fed up and went to pray to God. After praying God for want of peace, he started reading the Jain philosophy. He was reading about the evolution of Tirthankaras. He also studied about the fourteen dreams, and at that time Queen Prithvi Devi came into his room. She asked his permission to talk to him. They both started conversing, and the king told about the book and the dreams. The Queen in a rejoicing tone told the king that she dreamt of the fourteen things in her dream in the early morning. King understood that she would give birth to a Tirthankara. He happily told her that the dreams were the sign of the birth of am Arihant. He also thanked her for making him a proud father of a Tirthankara.

While they were talking the Senapati came and told the King that the rivalry country Kings have called off war. They have shown interest in unity. King became doubly happy upon hearing this.

Then the Queen Prithvi Devi on the twelfth day of Shukla Paksha (waxing moon) of the month of Visakha gave birth to a boy baby. The baby was born on Jyeshta star. Love, happiness, and richness flourished everywhere. Now the king named the little boy as Suparshvanath. Parsh means enemies. Suparsh means friends. Yes, due to the soul of the child entered the mother’s womb the enemy kingdoms extended arms for friendship. Hence the little boy was named as Suparshvanath. He grew up as a polite, humble, and generous prince.

He got married to many wives per their custom. He always preferred calm and pious life. One day the King decided to go to the Himalayas in search of liberation for his soul. He made his son Suparshvanath the king and left the kingdom. Suparshvanath efficiently executed the responsibility as a king.

Suparshvanath – Ascetic Life

One evening he was sitting in his garden. He noticed the leaves falling from the tree. He also saw the flowers drooping. He got a sense of detachment witnessing at this. He glanced at once all his previous births. He understood the purpose of the mundane existence. He now gave the country to his son and gave away all the material possession. He removed a fistful of his hair reciting “Namo Sidhanam” he vanished into the crowd. He started practicing penance. One fine day he attained Omniscience. On the sixth day of Krishna Paksham (Between the Full moon and New moon) of the Phalgun month, he achieved Nirvana.

Nirvana

He began to preach Jainism to his followers. He gave them a way to salvation. He educated them on the Right Act, Right Manner, and Right Knowledge. Those are the core principles of Jain philosophy.

His dedication and love brought in thousands of individual to follow his preaching. After consecutive nine months of his discourses on the seventh day of the Sukla Paksham (the period between new moon and full moon) also called as the bright half of the month or waxing moon of the month of Phalguna he attained Nirvana at Sammed Shikar.

Conclusion

Bhagavan Suparshvanath came to this world to insist humankind about the purpose of the birth and to go in the correct path of renunciation. He gave them the actual knowledge and inculcated the traits of kindness and ahimsa.

He preached that one could reach the real goal of life by getting detached. The purpose of life is to get liberated and connect with God. Only by giving up attachment to all possessions every individual can cross the ocean of life and death cycles. One must attain Mukti from this worldly existence. People followed him by understanding this core and got free from all struggles.

Such divine souls like Bhagavan Suparshvanath are born with the holy purpose of lifting humankind to Mukti. They spread peace, care, affection, and oneness among people.

India is such a blessed nation to welcome such sacred souls to consecrate the land. India proudly has uplifted millions and millions of individuals to understand self and attain peace. Holy men live in a blissful state.

Family
Father:	Supratishtha
Mother:	Prithvi
Dynasty:	Ikshvaku
Places
Birth:	Kashi (Banaras)
Nirvana:	Sammed Shikhar
Attributes
Colour:	Golden
Symbol:	Swastika
Height:	200 dhanusha (600 meters)
Age:	2,000,000 purva (141.12 Quintillion Years)
Attendant Gods
Yaksha:	Matang
Yaksini:	Shanta