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r Eleven Ganadharas of the Lord and their history
functions." Maurya Putra was quite satisfied with this instruction of the Lord. He, then, offered himself before the Lord and accepted consecration with his three hundred and fifty disciples immediately.
Now, it was the turn of Akempita, the eighth Pundit, to come to the shelter of the Lord. He did not believe in the existence of the hellish beings because they were invisible to his naked eye. On his coming to the Samavasharana, the Lord began to address him thus: You do not believe, O Akampita l in the existence ref the hell-beings. But what argument do you put forth for your disbelief? Do you not see that some people are enjoying a happy life while others are very miserable in this world ? What is it due to ? It is all due to thier good or bad Karmas. If you admit this, you cannot have any doubt about the existence of hell-beings. For those who perpetrate evil deeds in this world are reborn in hell. Tno reason, why infernal beings are invisible to you, is this that they are too dependent to appear before you. It is, at the same time, beyond the power of man to go to them with human body. There is however only one way to see them, namely, that one should develop one's thought-power and when one has attained clairvoyance, one can see the hell-beings and their actions quite distinctly. For a worldly man it is quite impossible to see them. It is, therefore, clear that although the hell-beings are invisible to our naked eye, their existence be proved logically.” Akampita (one who does not shake ) shook with delight when he heard these simple and instructive words of the Lord. He offered himself with his three hundred disciples for consecration before the Lord and accepted his discipleship immediately.
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