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Shrikrishna then went to Bhagavan Arishtanemi's religious assembly with Gajasukumal. The moment Gajasukumal listened to the sermon he got enlightened. He beseeched his parents to allow him to get initiated into the order. Devaki said, "Son, in your absence I will not be able to live even for a day." Shrikrishna also tried to dissuade him affectionately, "Don't insist on becoming an ascetic. I wiil make you the king of Dvarka. You will live in comfort with all available pleasures in this world." But detached Gajasukumal paid no heed to all this. He was adamant to get initiated by Bhagavan Arishtaner.. even in that immature age. His parents and Shrikrishna had to yield to his intense desire. Gajasukumal was initiated with a grand ceremony.
The day Gajasukumal was initiated by Bhagavan Arishtanemi he sought permission to observe the twelfth Bhikshu Pratima (specific austere practices meant for ascetics) and went to the Mahakal cremation ground. There he observed the Prutimo by standing in meditation drawing away all his attention from his body.
In the evening Somil was returning with a bundle of things used in yajnu as offerings. When he passed through the cremation ground and saw ascetic Gajasukumal standing in deep meditation and with shaven head, he got infuriated. He thought, "It he had to become a Shraman, why did he spoil the life of my innocent daughter, Soma?
Anger made him lose all his reason. He took sticky mud from a nearby pond and raised little walls to form a pit on the bald head of the ascetic. He then look burning coal from a funeral pyre and filled the pit so made. Satisfied with this act of revenge he leit.
The intense heat of the flaming coal scorched the bald head of the ascetic, like a pot placed on fire. His blood started boiling. This caused extreme agony. But ascetic Gajasukumal tolerated this with serene equanimity. He had no bad feelings for the tormentor. He was filled only with feelings of forgiving and clemency.
Ascetic Cajasukumal, the apostle of forgiveness continued his meditation and broke all the ties of karmas. He got liberated.
Thus Gajasukumal was able to do the antukriva only within 24 hours of becoming an ascetic.
This is an example of the second type of untukrivu. Third Antakriya
in the third type of antakriva, a person is born with extremely dense komas and destroys all these karmas only after a long period of ascetic practices and suffering great pain.
Here the density of karmas is greater and so is the span of ascetic life. Only after tolerating pain, torments, and afflictions with equanimity for a long period he is able to
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