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beauty, delicacy and fragrance of those flowers. The assembly of gods too, was not an exception to this rule. Where some of the gods felt pleased to hear the praise of the Lord, many showed their dissent to it. The fire of jealousy was most fiercely burning in the heart of a god named Sangaraa. He said to himself "Being the King of the gods, Indra is praising a hermit who is but an ordinary man. He does not care even for this illustrious assembly of the gods. It has become his daily business to insult the gods directly or indirectly. Surely this does not befit him. Now, I go and destroy the power of penance, self control, modesty, right conduct and character of that ascetic in order to falsify the words of Indra so that he may take lesson for future. With these filthy ideas in his mind, God Sangama at once prepared himself to go...
He came to the Lord and rained clouds of dust upon him for a long time. The atmosphere soon became dusty. There was not a single living being who might have survived after inhaling the air so full of dust. The body of the Lord was covered with dust, but he had already given up all thoughts about it, and, therefore, did not feel any uneasiness at this time. He remained standing at his place without moving his limbs as steady as the Mount Sumeru and as profound as the Pacific Ocean. And truly, when worldly people are mad after the transient, destructible and insignificant pleasures of this world, we cannot imagine how mad one would be who has discourted the eternal, undestructible and true happiness, the happiness of the Soul, or who is busy in obtaining such happiness. The Lord had discarded his princely pleasures and had adopted the life of a beggar
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