Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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When people asked him why he did not follow it in his own life, he frankly confessed his own inability. If anyone got inspiration from his words and desired to be initiated into the holy order, he always referred him to Bhagavān Rsabhadeva and advised him to join his order.
Kapila - Marici spent many years with Bhagavan Rsabhadeva. Once he fell seriously ill and there was none to take care of him. For the first time, he experienced the misery of a solitáry life, and he thought that he should take some direct disciples of his own. One day, as Bhagavan Rsabha deva was delivering a sermon, a prince Kapila was present in the assembly. Somehow, he did not like the sermon and he felt a disgust for it. So he looked around, and his eyes fell on Tridandi Marici who conspicuous for his dress. So he got up from his seat, came to Marici and asked him about his religion. Said Marici,
"I have no religion to offer to you. If you care for it at all, then I would advise you to seek the protection of the Bhagavān".
So the prince came back to his own seat and tried to concentrate again on the sermon. But despite his best effort, he found no interest in it. So he came back to Marici and said,
"Don't you have some inferior staff with you on which you may advise and direct me. If you have
none, then why have you taken a friar's robe"? When Marici heard these words, thought he,
"It seems that this fellow bears similarity with me, They say - birds of the feather flock together. Very well. He will be a good companion to me'.
Then he said aloud,
"You have religion with the Bhagavān as you have it with me".
This is a false statement that Marici made, and because of this falsehood, he enlongened his span of worldly exist