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Lord, “ Your Holiness, Is Goshala really so powerful as he says on account of his Tejoleshya, or he simply boasts of it ? Can his Tejolesh ya have any fatal effect even on such brave and fearless omniscients as your Holiness ?" The Lord replied, "The power of Tejolesh ya can work on any man except. ing an 'Aribanta'. It is, therefore advisable that none of you should pick any useless quarrel with Goshala. Go and tell this news to all the hermits. "Ananda Muni obeyed him and did as he was asked to do,
By this time, Goshala came there and said to the Lord, " O Kashyapa, while at one time you call me the son of a Mankhali, at another you call me your disciple. I cannot understand how a man who calls himself an 'Omniscient can change his opinion so frequently. I think you are quite mistaken. I admit that one Goshala might have been your disciple, but that Goshala belonged to the Shuka family and has died long ago. After his death he went to heaven and there he has bees born as a god. The most wonderful thing that took place after his death was that I found his body more beautiful and stronger and better able to bear all kinds of Upasargas than mine. I, therefore, threw aside my body and, with the power of penance, I, put my soul into his dead body. You should, therefore, be on your guard in calling me your disciple for now I am known as Udaya Muni.”
Then the Lord said, “Goshala, can the stomach be concealed from the mid-wife. Why do you tell a lie and kill your soul? I know everything about you."
At this Goshala was irritated. He said to the Lord, " Kashyapa, Do you want to meet your death ? Hold your tongue, other wise you are destroyed.”
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