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The Story of Sulasa
After being freed from the second light of the Yoga Shastra, verse 30, Sulasa's hunger increased greatly. Due to this, he ate greedily, stuffing himself to the brim. Just as a traveler in the desert feels extreme thirst in the summer, so too did Sulasa feel intense thirst after overeating. He was writhing in agony from thirst. Yet, out of fear of the gatekeeper, he did not leave that place to go towards any water source or reservoir. Instead, he remained there, suffering greatly from thirst, and in his mind, he began to praise aquatic creatures. Due to unbearable thirst, he cried out, "Water! Water!" and died right there. After death, he was born as a frog in the well near the gate of the same city. We were traveling and came to this city again. Therefore, people began to come very quickly to pay their respects. Hearing the news of my arrival from the news carriers, the frog began to think, "I have heard this before." Pondering over this repeatedly, he attained jati-smriti-jnana (knowledge of past lives) like remembering dreams. In the light of this knowledge, the frog realized that the same Prabhu whom the gatekeeper had been appointed to pay respects to in his previous life had arrived here. Therefore, just as humans go to pay their respects to him, so too should I. The water of the Ganges River is public. It does not have a single owner." Thinking this, he was hopping from there to pay his respects to me when he was crushed by the hoof of your horse's foot on the way and died right there. But at the time of his death, he had devotion and affection for me in his mind, so he was born as the Darduraank Dev.
"Even if a feeling is devoid of action, it is still fruitful." Devendra had said one day in the divine assembly, "In Bharatavarsha, King Shrenik is the best among the Shravakas and is steadfast in his faith. Therefore, O King! This Darduraank Dev has come to test you. He worshipped my feet with Gosirsha Chandan. To create an illusion in your mind, he used his Vaikriya Shakti to take the form of a leper, etc., and pretended to apply pus to my feet, and he spoke four different things to each of the four."
Upon this, King Shrenik asked the Lord again, "O Lord! When you sneezed, why did he speak a completely inauspicious word, and when others sneezed, why did he speak auspicious and inauspicious words?" In reply, the Lord said, "For me, his indication was that why are you still sitting in the world? Quickly depart for liberation. Therefore, he said to me, 'Die.' And O Narasimha! You have happiness here, but after death, your fate is hell, where there is immense suffering. As an indication of this, he said, 'Live.' For Abhayakumar, the difference was, 'Live or die.' He said this from the perspective that if he lives, he will perform righteous actions, and if he dies, he will go to the Anuttaraviman Devaloka. And finally, for Kalasaukarak, he said, 'Neither live nor die.' His intention was that if he lives, he will continue to kill many beings, and if he dies, he will go to the seventh hell."
Hearing this explanation from the Lord's mouth, Emperor Shrenik bowed and prayed, "O Lord! Even though you are such a gracious Lord, I will have to go to hell." The Lord said, "You have already bound the lifespan of hell for yourself. Therefore, you will definitely have to go there." "The fruits of past bound good or bad deeds must be experienced. We are all powerless to change anything in this. But the good news is that you will become the first Tirthankara named Padma-nabha in the coming twenty-four. Therefore, do not be sad."
Shrenik then asked, "O Lord! Is there any way for me to escape the terrible, darkest hell, which is like a blind man in a blind well?" The Lord replied, "Yes! There are two ways." One is that if you willingly make a donation to a Sadhu from the hands of your maidservant Kapila (Brahmani), and the other is that you stop Kalasaukarak (the butcher) from killing beings, then you can be freed from hell. Otherwise, it is very difficult.
Holding this righteous advice in his heart like a garland, King Shrenik bowed to Lord Mahavira and went towards his palace. On the way, to test the king's right faith, Darduraank Dev, carrying a net on his shoulder like a fisherman, 1. In other stories, there is mention of three ways along with the Samayik of the Punia Shravak.
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