Hell for Me I Dare Not even Think of

Author(s): Vimalprabhvijay
Publisher: Vimalprabhvijayji

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[31] GUNCHANDRA AND BALCHANDRA:
In the city of Amarpur, Amardev, a wealthy man had 2 sons named as Gunchandra and Balchandra. once, they went overseas/ abroad For business purpose. They earned a lot of wealth with that wealth and other assets they purchased diamonds, pearls, precious stones, gold, silver etc. and prepared ornaments from them, and they were returning back to their nation. on their ways they got the news that a war is fought in Amarpur and the citizens were running for rescue. The two brothers also climbed the Lakshmi Nilay mountain nearby and decided to bury all their wealth contained in a gold pot. They thought "wealth would be saved and we would take it out in future". so they digged a pit under a coconut tree and buried their wealth and went away from there. After some days the battle ended.
Both the brothers were tempted towards the wealth, due to greed Gunchandra thought," I would take all this wealth" so he killed his younger brother Balchandra by giving him poison and became happy, Wov ! Now all this wealth is mine. What a greedy person does? How much powerful the greed is that though being two sons of the same mother, a brother too-in madness of wealth-does not hesitate to kill his own real brother, his own blood in the craze of greed ? He becomes happy in the sweet thought of the wealth. He goes on enjoying in the thoughts that "I have plenty and ample of wealth". But the maturity of the extreme and intense sinful Karmas - is also too instant, and even the results/fruits thereof are also accordinglyunauspicious. A poisonous snake bites Gunchandra on the mountain and he dies. Both the brothers died and the wealth remained intact.
intentions, it gets 'reward' and vice-a-versa. Tejpal and Vastupāl went to burry their wealth but instead they got more wealth on digging. Unlike Vastupal & Tejpal, What did Devdutt get when he went to acquire the wealth? What he got due to his inauspicious motives & intentions of excessive 'greed' was a snake bite, and as a result his life ended! The friends of Devdutt killed the snake by hitting bricks & stones? Greed leads to degradation of life and normally intense greedy souls are born in Tiryanch Gati such as Snake, mongoose, rats etc.,
The snake died and was again born as a lion on the same mountain and soul of) Balchandra was born as human being named Indradev. For the purpose of hunting, once Indradev went to Laxminilay Mountain, where the lion was already sitting on the buried treasure/wealth. Indradev Shooted an arrow to hunt the lion at the same time the lion jumped on Indradev and teared him off, but due to heavy wound of the arrow the lion also died. Both of them died and were born in the house of a Chãndāl. (i.e executionist)
One was named as Kālsen and the another Chandsen. Once they went on to Laxmi Nilay mountain with a pig. There, they killed the pig and while they were cooking it on the ground of burried treasure, the burning sticks fell on that ground and both the brothers could see the glitter of the golden pot. Both of them were tempted by greed. The unconscious greed got awakened in both of them. Chandasen killed Kālsen. The other chãndāls killed Chandasen. Both of them got rebirth in Hell, after sufferings for the tremendous sins in Hell, both of them were born again as human beings one was named as Samudradutt as a son of a gentleman, the another as Manglak who was born as a son of the maid servant in the same house. Both of them became good friends. Manglak was a fraud. Samudradutt was married, Samudradutt with his friend Mangalak went to bring his wife, in the midway they arrived at Laxmi Nilay mountain they sat under a tree, the attachment for that wealth was again awakened, due to greed, Manglak in treacherous manner-stabbed his friend Samudradutt with a knife in his stomach and then ran away, but despite, Samdradutt survived. Samudradutt then took diksha [ initiation to become a religious monk/ preceptor] from Acharyadev and with good moral deeds and religious acts-he uplifted his soul and he went to graiveyak Devlok [Heaven/ the world of deities). Manglak after suffering in Hell, became a goat. A cow-herd took him [Manglak/ goat] for feeding purpose, the goat climbed the mountain and sat out of attachment on the same
Due to greed the human birth of both the brothers got wasted. Gunchandra, due to sin of killing his own brother, went to Hell and Balchandra the younger brother, went to Vyantar Gati (i.e. Birth. Birth as ghost/evil spirit/witch.) Bălchandra in his next incarnation birth was born as son of Sãrthwãh named as Devdutt.
By coincidence and attraction of greed, he reached on the mountain 'LaxmiNilay' with his friends, where in his previous life he and his brother had buried the wealth. Looking at the snakes' burrow, out of curiosity he tried to take out the wealth, but already there was a snake [ soul of Gunchandra). Devdutt was killed by a snake bite. Here the case of Vastupal and Tejpál is remembered and it is understood that if soul is humble and has positive & generous motive &
Oh God! Hell for me ?!... I dare not even think of...
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