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ering with cold. He made fire to keep himself warm and passed the night with great difficulty. As soon as the day dawned, he started for Shravasti without quenching the fire, which was spreading towards Lord Mahavira as if to kiss the feet of that glorious soul in reverence. Lord Mahavira did not prevent it from proceeding towards him, but stood like an inanimate object as cheerfully as before. Neither did he move an inch from his place nor did he feel any inte. rruption in his meditation. Now the meditation was being complete. Goshala saw that the feet of the Lord was being burnt by fire. He drew the attention of the Lord to his feet, but the Lord said, "Goshala why should I be sorry for this ? It is the fruit of my own Karmas which I must taste ungrudgingly. If I do not repay my debt of Karmas at this time, it will increase with interest every day. I should, therefore, clear off my accounts in this very life.” Goshala marked an extraordinary graveness, a supernatural calmness, and a ray of radiance upon the face of the Lord. He silently praised the forbearance and the exposition of the Karma doctrine of the Lord again and again, and decided to mould his life in the same mould in which Lord Mahavira had moulded his own. Just after this, Lord Mahavira resumed his Vihara.
GOSHALA SEPARATES
Lord Mahavira passed through Langala and Choraku, and was going with Goshala to a village named Kalambuka, when Kala-Hasti, one of the two rulers of Kalambuka, who was coming with his soldiers, met him on his way. He took the two hermits to be thieves in disguise and ordered his men to arrest them and bring them before him at once. The
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