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life towards sramaņa Bhagavān Manāyira reigned supreme and he asked Ganadlara Mahāraja Indra bhuí Gautama. "Where is your Guru ?' He replied, “The Venerable Saint sitting in the centre is my Guru and also yours”
The farmer-ascetic, then, said "If he is your Guru, i have nothing to do with this Diksā. I dɔn't want your Dikśā. My art of cultivation and my family, is good for me." So saying, he left the ascetic's costume there, went away, and resumed his work at the plough
Ganadhara Indrabhūti Gautama, then, asked “My Worthy Lord ! I am really astonished to see that he had malice towards your Venei able Self who is the gladdenur of the thiee worlds. O Lord! why did he kave off the afra y Căritra Dharmathe duties of an autic,-accepted by him, as soon as he saw you?
Ssamana Bhagavān Mahāyira said "O Gautama ! The soul of tiie lion whom I lilled during my Bhava as Tripristha Vāsudéva has, during thus life, become the farmer. You were my charioteer during that Bhava, and you pacified with sweet words, the lan who was burnig hut with anger, at death time. From that time on-ward, he became hostile to ine and affectionate towards you, and therefore, you were sent by me for the pui pose of inst. ucting him in religion.'
Information about the relation of the soul of śramaņa Bhagavān Mahavira with the soul of Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabliuti (autma, during intevening Bhai as-from his existence as the charioteer of Tripristha Vasudéva till his appointment as the chief Ganadhara of śramana Bhagayān and the meritorious deeds he must have done during his future lives, for the attainment of the exalted position of a Ganadhara to a Tirthankara, is not available.
The association of the soul of Sramaņa Bhagayān Mahāyira with that of the farmer, commenced during his previous sixteenth Bhava.
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