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Next morning Sharatshri asked Kunal -
Good Idea.
The ascetic said
Come and listen to the words of the Omniscient in my discourse. You will have peace in life.
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Emperor Samprati
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My Lord! An ascetic disciple of Arya Suhasti stays in the nearby upashraya # Let us pay our homage to him.
The prince and his family went to pay homage to the ascetic, who said
Sire! Please teach me religion, it is the only hope for an invalid.
Now the prince went to the discourse daily with his family. The words of the Omniscient made him happy. One day the prince requested the ascetic
Sir! Your preaching has made me detached from the world. I want to embrace ascetic discipline for the upliftment of my soul.
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Prince, I was enchanted by your devout performance last night. It is an excellent combination if devotion is supplemented with religious knowledge and conduct.
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Prince, you can follow religious conduct only as a householder. Your blind
ness disables you to observe compassion to beings and without that purity of ascetic conduct cannot be pursued.
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