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The Story of Sagar Chakravarti
Yoga Shastra Second Light Verse 112
| He was ordered to remove the poison. He used his mantra skills to remove the poison in many ways, but it proved futile like putting ghee in ashes. The dead person could not be revived. But on the other hand, it was not easy to convince the grieving | Brahmin. So the king explained with a strategy - Vipravar! You do this, from whose house no one has died till date, bring a handful of ashes from there. That's it, when I get the ashes, I will revive your son. As soon as the king said this, the Brahmin said happily - This is a very easy thing. The Brahmin left from there and went from village to village | and city to city searching for ashes. But no such house was found; where no one had died till date. | The Brahmin returned empty-handed in despair, then the king said - 'Vipravar! Did you bring the ashes? The Brahmin said| Maharaj! No such house was found where no one died. So now you give me such ashes. The king said| Even in my family, Lord Rishabhdev, Bharat Chakravarti, Bahubali, Suryayasha, Somayasha etc. many people have passed away, someone | went to moksha, someone went to heaven, King Jitashatru went to moksha, King Sumitra went to Devalok. So death is common to all. When so many died and we endured their separation, then why can't you bear the separation of your one son? | take it? The Brahmin said - Maharaj! Your words are true. But I have only one son, so you should save him. | It is the rule of the righteous to protect the poor and the orphans. The Chakravarti said - Vipravar! Don't grieve! The only way to be free from the sorrow of death in the world is to take refuge in the feeling of detachment. The Brahmin answered him in the same coin | - Prithvinath! If this is the case, then you should not grieve even for the death of your sixty thousand sons. | should. The king was startled to hear this and said - What did you say? My 60 thousand sons died? How did they die? Is there not even one left? | What happened? Tell me this in detail? On this, the soldiers who had been signaled beforehand came and narrated the whole story from beginning to end. | Hearing this terrible news, Sagar Chakravarti suddenly fainted and fell down on the earth with a thud, just like | as a thunderbolt falls on a mountain. As soon as the fainting spell ended, the king regained consciousness. For a while, the king cried like ordinary people. He became disgusted with the world by this incident. He started thinking - My sons will enhance the glory of my lineage, they will give me happiness, with this hope, even though I considered the world to be impermanent, I did not think anything. Damn me! Even with so many sons, I was not satisfied, then how would it be possible if two or four more sons were born? In my lifetime, suddenly | This happened to my sons, and they could not give me any satisfaction! Alas! This is the wicked play of the world. Getting caught in it is just to lose life in vain. In this way, Sagar Chakravarti, after crowning Bhagirath, the son of Janhukumara, | took initiation at the feet of Lord Ajitnath and attained Akshayapad by observing restraint. This is a brief account of the life of Sagar Chakravarti!
Kuchikarna's Attachment to Cows:
There was a village called Sughoosha in Magadhdesh. There lived a famous village headman named Kuchikarna. He slowly | collected one lakh cows. A lake is filled by drop by drop. He entrusted those cows to different cowherds to raise them by making separate herds. But those cowherds started quarreling among themselves, one said - My cow is beautiful. The other says - Your cow is not beautiful, my cow is beautiful, seeing them fighting, Kuchikarna separated those cows into different divisions, giving some white, some black, some yellow, some Kapila names and established different Gokuls in different forests. He himself also lived in Gokul and ate milk, curd. Just as a drunkard remains unsatisfied even after drinking enough liquor, in the same way, Kuchikarna also remained unsatisfied even after consuming so much milk and curd. | was. Due to excessive consumption of milk and curd, he developed indigestion with juice spreading up and down in his body. | His stomach burned so much, as if he was lying in fire. He shouted loudly - Alas! When will I get my cows, bulls, calves again? In this way, Kuchikarna, who was unsatisfied with his cattle wealth, died there and was born in the animal realm.
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