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like waking a sleeping lion." Gunsen thought:
"I had no intention to harass the monk. I had never dreamt even such thing. Yet, it is true that I have committed a blunder."
When Acharya Kaundinya knew the whole story, he was convinced that Gunsen is totally innoceut. Destiny had willed it so. He himself went to pacify Agnisharma. He saw that Agnisharma was in great misery and was highly wrathful. He had transformed all achievements (Siddhis) into the instinct of avenging He was pained to see that though Agnisharma had never cared for his body and suffered thirst-hunger, cold and heat etc. There was no sign of mental peace or forgiveness. The ogcean of peace, equanimity, patience and sense of forgiving ought to have been rolling in the heart of such a sage. But alas! It was not there. Every thing was upside down. He did not regard penance as a means for cultivating
