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COMPASSIONATE BHAGAVAN MAHAVIR
Highly virtuous Priyamitra became a Chakravarti, an emperor, when he became young. He took care of his subjects like his. own children. He enjoyed serving the poor and worshiping religious persons like monks, mendicants, ascetics etc. One day an ascetic named Pottilacharya arrived in Muka town. Priyamitra Chakravarti welcomed the Acharya.
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Priyamitra listened to the discourse of Pottilacharya. He was deeply moved.
Ascetic Priyamitra did practices of harsh penance, meditation, discipline etc. for ten million years. During the day he would stand in hot sun and during the night he would sit bare bodied in Virasan (a yogic posture) and meditate.
Revered one! I want to abandon the mundane indulgences and commence practices of penance and spiritual discipline. Kindly initiate me into the order.
Pottilacharya accepted him as his disciple.
He breathed his last after a fast until death. He reincarnated as a god in the Mahashukra dimension.
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