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Chapter-2: Collection of Examples:
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5. Verses from the story of Shri Vishwabhooti, included in the Shri Trishatisalaaka Purushacharitra, about meditation on the self. He wandered for many births, having been cast out from the Brahma Loka. Births are indeed endless, due to the results of one's own actions. ||1||
From there, in the royal palace, there was a king named Vishwanandi. His wife was Priyangu, and their son was Vishakhanandi. ||2||
Vishakhabhooti was the prince, the younger brother of the king. The prince had a beloved wife named Dhaarini. ||3||
Marichijeeva, due to good deeds accumulated in a previous birth, was born as the son of Vishakhabhooti and Dhaarini, named Vishwabhooti. ||4||
Vishwabhooti, in his youth, enjoyed himself in the forest, in the Pushpakarandaka, like a divine prince in Nandana. ||5||
Vishakhanandi, the king's son, was outside, wanting to play. The maidservants went to gather flowers, and they saw him there. ||6||
Knowing this, Priyangu, out of anger, became enraged and went away. The king, wanting to fulfill her desire, sounded the war drum. ||7||
The valiant Purushasimha, a vassal, said in the assembly, "I will go to conquer him." He spoke deceitfully. ||8||
Hearing this, Vishwabhooti, out of devotion, came from the forest and stopped the king from going. ||9||
He went and saw Purushasimha, who was a king, and he was afraid. He went back to the Pushpakarandaka forest. ||10||
He was told by the gatekeeper that Vishakhanandi was inside. He thought, "I have been tricked by the Pushpakarandaka." ||11||
In anger, he struck a kapittha tree with his fist, and the fruit fell down. He showed the gatekeeper the ground covered with fruit. ||12||
"I will cause the heads of all of you to fall like this. If you do not have devotion to me, then it will be worse and worse for you." ||13||
Saying, "I am deceived by pleasures, wealth, and such things," he went to the feet of Sambhooti Muni and took vows. ||14||
Hearing that he had become an ascetic, the king, with his army, went there. He bowed down, begged forgiveness, and requested him to return to the kingdom. ||15||
Knowing that Vishwabhooti did not want to return, the king went back home. Vishwabhooti then lived elsewhere with his guru. ||16||
With the permission of his guru, he practiced austerities in solitude, becoming thin. He went to the city of Mathura. ||17||
At that time, Vishakhanandi's son, Udvo, came to Mathura. Vishwabhooti, at the end of the month, entered the city for his parana. ||18||
Vishakhanandi, having come out of his camp, saw Vishwabhooti, the prince, and was filled with hatred. ||19||
Vishakhanandi, seeing him immediately, became angry like an enemy. Vishwabhooti, with a single cow, fell down. ||20||
"You who caused the kapittha fruit to fall, where are you now?" he laughed. Vishwabhooti, in anger, took the cow by its horns and swung it around. ||21||
"You have great strength,