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to take Diksha. Without delay, Shrenik immediately reached
Lord Mahavir with a long procession and addressed Lord
Mahavir, “O Lord ! I give you my son as your disciple. Kindly
accept him and give him Charitra.”

How great was Shrenik’s selfless calculation ! It was quite
possible that Shrenik would have to face difficulty under
Konik’s tyrannical rule. Inspite of that, he permitted his
devoted and capable son Abhaykumar to leave the kingdom
and accept Diksha. He left his fate to his own karmas. He
did not ruin his son’s spiritual progress for his own selfish
interests. Such a noble thinking is possible only if mental
health is in place.

In today’s world also, many parents oppose their children’s
desire for diksha for their own self interests. This is because
their mind is unstable.

Many weird and wrong assumptions and notions are responsible
for this mental instability.

“What will I do if my son accepts diksha ? Who will support
me in my old age ?” But he doesn’t realize that if his Punya
is lacking then his son may separate from him after marriage
and not even bother about his old age and other difficulties.
Here the imagination that his son and not his Punya will look
after him is completely wrong.

The second imagination which is wrong here is that the
parents feel that the little child will become unhappy by taking
diksha*. On the other hand this worldly life will give him
happiness. This imagination is also wrong because no one in
this world has attained pure happiness. Instead this world is
filled to the brim with sorrows, pains, troubles and worries.
Those who have left this world and accepted Diksha are truly

* Diksha – Lord Mahavir’s path of renounciation
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