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Kapila to dance. Kapila said there was no one to beat the rhythm. They all began to beat the ground and Kapila danced and sang, The refrain of the song was "In this world full of misery, uncertainty and impermanence, what can I do so that I might not come to grief." Every now and then, he sang the refrain. Some of the five hundred thieves received the message of enlightenment on hearing the first verse, some on hearing the second verse. So gradually all the five hundred rough characters felt the keen desire for renunciation and soon enough became members of the Jain order.
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