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GAŅADHARA 3 – VĀYUBHŪTI
(1645) Hearing that those two had become monks, a third (Vāyubhūti) approaches the Jina (victor) thinking, “I shall go, bow down and having bowed down wait upon him.
(1646) Indrabhūti and Agnibhūti have become his pupils. The three worlds pay their respects to him. That blessed one must be approached.
(1657) I shall have my sins removed by approaching him, bowing to him and waiting upon him. Or I shall go to the Jina, disclose my doubt (to him) and have it dispelled.
(1648) The Jina who was free from birth, old age, death, and was omniscient and all-seer accosted him (Vāyubhūti) by his name and gotra.
(Váyubhūti was so overawed by the extraordinary knowledge and personality of Mahá vīra that he could not utter a word. Mahāvīra himself said: ]
(1649) You have a doubt whether the soul and body are one (or are different) and yet you do not ask anything. You do not know the meaning of the words of the Veda. This is what they mean. . (1650) Your doubt is that consciousness emerges out of the aggregate of the elements, Earth, etc. Though not perceived in each severally, it is verily (perceived) in the aggregate like wine-spirit.
(1651) As (wine - ) spirit though not perceived in the constituents of wine severally, emerges in the aggregate and with the passage of time is destroyed, such is the case with consciousness with respect to the aggregate of elements.
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