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Thirty-sixth Chapter
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Even though your wealth is fruitful, it is tainted by many thorns and misfortunes. Who would be wise enough to even touch a thorny vine with their hand? ||8||
For us, this worldly wealth, like a net of poisonous thorns, is completely to be abandoned. We desire to make the wealth of penance, free from thorns, our own. ||9||
Therefore, forgive me for this offense I have committed. I have fallen from humility, meaning I did not show you humility, and I consider this my own fickleness. ||100||
Just as the roar of thunder, emerging from the clouds, delights the hearts of those who are distressed, so too did the group of words, emerging from the mouth of the great king Bahubali, somewhat delight the distressed mind of the Chakravarti Bharat. ||101||
"Alas, I have done a very wicked deed!" Thus, the Chakravarti, blaming himself loudly, was greatly distressed by his own sinful karma. ||102||
Using many forms of humility and respect, he repeatedly pleased the last of the Kulkaras, the great king Bharat. Bahubali did not retreat from his resolve, for the steadfastness of the wise is indeed astonishing. ||103||
He entrusted his son, the great Mahabali, with the wealth of the kingdom, and himself, worshipping the feet of his Guru, took Jain initiation. ||104||
Embraced by the vine of initiation, having abandoned all possessions, he shone like a tree shedding its leaves, adorned with a creeper of Kusha. ||105||
Following the Guru's command, he became skilled in the study of scriptures and adopted the practice of one-pointedness. For a year, he practiced the image yoga, meaning he remained standing in one place, on one seat. ||106||
With praiseworthy vows, never eating, and with his surroundings filled with forest vines, he was terrifying, emerging from the holes of termite mounds, surrounded by snakes. ||107||
With their hoods raised, hissing, surrounded on all sides by the leaping and jumping of young snakes, he shone, as if adorned with poisonous shoots. ||108||