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Fourth Study: Suradeva]
[127] He started shouting.
When Suradeva's wife Dhanya heard this shouting, she immediately came to the dining hall and asked her husband what was wrong? Why are you doing this? To this, Suradeva told Dhanya the whole incident. Dhanya was very intelligent. She told her husband that this was a dev-upsarg to make you deviate from your dharma. Your sons are safe. The talk of causing disease in your body was nothing but a threat. You broke your vow out of fear, this was a sin, you should purify yourself by doing penance. Suradeva readily accepted his wife's words. He criticized himself for his mistake, accepted penance.
Suradeva's subsequent life was more and more dynamic in the worship of dharma like Chulani Pita. He followed the vows properly, followed the Shravak-dharma for twenty years, worshipped the eleven Upasak-pratima properly, completed the final Sanlekhana of one month and one month of fasting, and gave up his body peacefully. He was born in the form of a deva in the Arunakant Vimana in the Saudharma Devaloka.
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