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38 prayer done with faith ??
The third month was also over and the fourth started. This time also Agnisharma had to return hungry. What. happened was this : Gunsen remembered Agnisharma for the last three days. But on the day itself, he was busy celebrating the birth-festival of his son.. Agnisharma waited for sometime and. then went back.
Really speaking, the penance is not any aim or an end in-itself. It is a means for developing the good virtues of peace, forgivaness mercy, tenderness,equanimity etc. One who does not know the utility of penance as such, his penance is wasted.
Agnisharma failed in this fiery-test. It was as if he got zero marks inspite: of hard labrours. His body felt burning sensation due to anger. The sense of revenge made him mad. He now felt that:
