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six regions of Bharata, the Lord of fourteen heavenly jewels, nine treasures, and a cakravart emperor. He began to wail in anger as to what could be a better example of the meaninglessness of worldly riches and accomplishments and strength than this. What can be a greater mockery than this that a Lord of six divisions, a cakravart emperor could not even protect his own family? This entire world is a dangerous web of illusion and a whodunit, unreal and false. It is futile to get stuck in its illusion. I wasted in vain my human life behind this meaningless wealth. Thus, what has to happen and has happened. Now I shall make my human life worthwhile.
This way, disenchanted by worldly affairs cakravart Sagara anointed his grandson Bhag ratha on the throne and took initiation into mendicancy under T rthamkara Lord Ajitan tha, observed pure austerities and intense meditation. He destroyed the four obscuring karmas in the flame of his austerities and restraint and obtained pure knowledge and in the end, destroying the non-obscuring karmas also, obtained the immortal happy state of nirva.
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