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reviling me as he thinks fit I will, therefore, burn him alive through the prowess of my austerities. I am going to do it just now. You go now and relate to him immediately this I will keep you fact. Give your preceptor the right advice, and alive being a good adviser, like that old merchant." On hearing this threat, Muni Ananda became greatly alarmed, and going in hot haste to Bhagavana Sree Mahavira Swāmi,
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narrated the whole account. Bhagavan Mahavira said, comes Gośāla, so, O Ananda, you and all the Sadhus go away in different directions and inform Gautama and others that Sadhu should talk with him." Gośāla went, thereafter, to Bhagavana Śree Mahavira Swami and said "O Kasyapa ! Why dost thou say that this Gośāla is the son of Mankhali ? That man-your pupil-is already dead different man altogether, but knowing that the body of Gosala is powerful enough to suffer great hardships I have taken possession of his body." Two disciples of Venerable Saint Mahāvīra named Sūnakṣatra ga and Sarvanubhūti algfa, unable to put up with the insult to the Lord, began to say something In the middle. This greatly enraged Gośāla; and he burnt down to ashes both the Sadhus by his Téjoléśyā Fade”. Both of them went to heaven. Bhagavana Śree Mahavira asked Gośāla, "O Gośāla ! If a thief committing a theft is encircled by a crowd of people, and not having a fortress or a mountain or a cave to hide himself in, tries to hide himself by his own finger or by a piece of straw, do you think he can thus hide himself? In the same way, you are trying to hide yourself by saying anything you like; do you think you can hide yourself thus? You are the same Gośāla, no one else, why should you try to hide yourself in this way ?" Although Śramaŋa Bhagavan Mabāvīra thus stated the bare fact as it was, wicked Gosala angrily discharged his Téjolésya at on Bhagavan Mahavira, but the Téjolésya, going around Him three times, entered the body of Gosala. His whole body was there-by severely burnt, and suffering intense days, Gośāla dieu during the seventh night
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