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The chakravarti did as told. The Brahmins were true. His pride of his beauty was shattered to pieces. Realizing the ephemeral nature of the human body he got detached and became an ascetic.
The body was already virus ridden, stale and dry food combined with austerities worsened the condition and the ailments aggravated. The pain was intolerable. But ascetic Sanatkumar tolerated all the pain with equanimity. Neglecting the body he continued the process of cleansing the soul through increased austerities and meditation.
The king of gods once again praised Sanatkumar, but this time for his exemplary tolerance, “Great is the tolerance of ascetic Sanatkumar. He has gained many powers due to his austerities. If he so desires he can get rid of all ailments. But he continues his spiritual practices without caring for his body or being effected by intolerable pain."
air of gods came to test the ascetic. They took the form of doctors and tried their best to persuade the ascetic to take their treatment. The ascetic replied, "Doctors. I am not at all worried about my physical ailments. I am working to cure the ailment of karmus that hounds my soul. As regards the ailment of the body, I have the power to cure it instantaneously."
And the ascetic extended one of his ailing and deformed fingers and spit on it. That finger at once became perfect, healthy and glowing.
The gods were astonished. They regained their true divine form, paid homage to the great ascetic and left after paying rich tributes to his tolerance and spiritual endeavour.
This way ascetic Sanatkumar continued his practices for seven hundred years before shedding all karmus.
Sanatkumar destroyed his karmas by tolerating extreme pain for a long period. This is the example of the third type of antakriva.
Fourth Antakriya
The fourth untukriva is that where a person is born with a low density of kurmas and gets liberated soon after disciplining himself (blocking the inflow of karmas through mind, speech and body).
In this fourth antakriva one neither suffers any pain nor does he remain ascetic for a long period. Even the life after becoming omniscient is not much. Soon after omniscience follows liberation. The example of this is Marudevi Bhagavati.
Marudevi did not suffer any pain. She was not even formally initiated. She only accepted the initiation mentally and got liberated.
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