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COMPASSIONATE BHAGAVAN MAHAVIR
Hearing these words Chandakaushik went into deep contemplation. It remembered its earlier birth
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Two births earlier it was a Shraman ascetic. Once he was going to beg for his breakfast after a month long fast. A small frog was crushed under his feet. His disciple asked him to atone for this deed. He became very angry. When in the evening the disciple again reminded him, he ran after the disciple angrily to hit him. In the dark building he collided with a pillar, broke his head and died on the spot.
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As a result of dying with feelings of acute anger he reincarnated as a very short tempered Brahman. Once some princes came in the garden to pluck flowers, Chandakaushik ran after them with an axe in his hand. He stumbled and fell down in a large ditch. The axe in his hand split his head and he died. Once again due to deeply ingrained feelings of anger he re-incarnated as a venomous snake.
Chandakaushik bowed its hood and sought forgiveness from Bhagavan
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Oh! This excessive anger has spoiled so many of my life-times.
I will never be angry again.
Pardon me O Incarnation of forgiveness ! In return of my gift of poison you have given me the ambrosia of knowledge and
reformed me.
Chandakaushik serpent took the vow of fasting till death at the feet of Bhagavan Mahavir.
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