I lived a very simple life, being born on the thirteenth day of the rising moon in the month of Chaitra in the Vira Nirvana Samvat calendar era (aka April) into an overtly wealthy royal family but aged 30 i gave up all my worldly possessions and spent twelve years sitting under an Ashoka tree in pursuit of spiritual awakening and seeking perfection through intense meditation, fasting, severe austerity and being totally stark bollock naked and never once sitting down.
I pondered on such puzzling questions in life like why are we here, what is reality and how come hair and toe nails are not allowed into heaven and at the age of forty-two, i attained omniscience, the capacity to know everything, which comes in very handy in Heaven's quiz nights.
I preached for 30 years and attained Moksha (liberation) before reaching Nirvana which is when the soul rises to heaven and leaves behind only finger nails and hair.
I taught that every living being has sanctity and dignity which should be respected as one expects one's own sanctity and dignity to be respected, you should be truthful, never steal, should stay faithful to your partner and show an attitude of non-attachment to worldly possessions and i came up with a brilliant symbol for the four arms of existence (Heavenly beings, human beings, Hellish beings and subhuman like flora or fauna) which i called the Swastika.
My Nirvana came and i achieved the release of my soul from karmic bondage during a preaching when the entire crowd fell asleep, awakening to find that i had disappeared and leaving only my nails and hair obviously (see above), which they cremated.
Jainism is still a thing today, i regularly get the whiff of burnt toe nails wafting my way but the use of the Swastika has fallen out of fashion after a certain Austrian decided that my sacred symbol that symbolizes peace was perfect to use and then kill 11 million people with.
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