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But this much did not satisfy him. So everything had to be explained to him. She had to say, “Death had taken him away, never he will return:
On hearing this he became melancholy. Then thinking for a while he asked, “Mother, does everybody die ?'
She became apprehensive looking at his eyes moist with tears. She gave no reply, only gathered him within her arms still closer. She said, ‘Let us talk something else.'
'No mother, tell me everything.' He looked at her intently. ‘Mother, shall I also die?'
But how could she tell her son that he would also die. But there was no way out. So she had to say, 'Yes, one day everybody will die. I myself shall not live for all times.'
When Thavaraccaputra heard that one day everybody would die, nobody would live for all times, death would carry away everybody, then he became convinced that this earth wherein all are involved was unreal. Everything was meaningless. Along with this a querry arose in his mind : Wasn't there anything in the world by getting which one could say that he had become immortal? Could say, he had no fear of death any more, he had won over death.
From that day Thavaraccaputra began to live aloof from the world. Then the day he received initiation on the path of liberation from the hand of Tirthankara Aristanemi he left the world that appeared transient and full of suffering.
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