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meekly replied “First, my Lord, I was deterred from doing so by my love of music and secondly, I was so much charmed by its melodious harmony and sweet voice after some time that being immersed in the song I quite forgot to carry out your order.” This increasing impudence of the servant added more fuel to the anger of Vasudeva, and in a fit he ordered the servant at once to be put to death by pouring molten lead into his ears. There was none to challenge the authority of Vasudeva or say a word against his sentence. The molten lead was pou red into the ears of that poor bedchamber servant, who suffered acute pain and at last breathed his last, writhing his limb like a fish in the agony of death. The performance of this evil deed recorded the most horrible of Asatavedaniya Karmas for the Vasudeva and he had to pay for it afterwards. When his soul was born in the body of Lord Mahavira at a future date, nails were driven into his ears on account of which Lord Mahavira had to suffer extremely unbearable pain. This shows that wherever a Jiva may go, it is bound to reap the fruit of its previous karmas sooner or later. It can not escape its fate or free itself from the net of karmas until and unless it has reaped the fruit of all directly or indirectly. This is, therefore, settled beyond all arguments that the karmas are the cause of the Jiva's rebirth.
A few days after this fatal incident Lord Shreyansa Natha, the eleventh Tirthankara, in the course of his roamings came to Potanapur and delivered his sermons. His precepts had a far reaching effect upon the audience, as a result of wich many accepted consecration and many undertook to perform the duties of a layman. Vasudeva Trirprishta also went with his companions and followers to listen
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