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nor a mighty demon can swerve you from the spiritual path you have adopted.”
All agreed with Indra in his praise of Mahavira. But a god named Sangama could not tolerate this. He was very proud of his godhood. He wished to prove that man is nothing before god. He believed that a man, however great he might be, would succumb to the lures of wealth and damsels. Obtaining the permission of Indra, he arrived where Mahavira was standing in deep meditation. He thought : "Indra has made a mountain out of a mustard seed. I shall turn that mountain into a mustard seed again."
He put his plans into action. He played his tricks one by one on Mahavira. He inflicted innumerable favorable and unfavorable calamities on Mahavira in quick succession. In one night he created twenty dreadful calamities on Mahavira. For about six months, Bhagwan Mahavir did not get food worth consumption and the body suffered but it withstood the ordeal caused by Sangam. At last Sangam stood, defeated and bowed at his feet.
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