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I am the Soul Omniscient and called Prabhu a liar. Not just that, he not only forgot the benevolence of the benefactor, but went on to cause terrible damage to him. He tried to burn the Prabhu with the Tejoleshya!
You get to see a vivid picturisation of the level of barbarity to which the feeling of jealousy within, takes the human. But Brothers! What was the result? Prabhu, of course, was Veetarag - bereft of passions, an embodiment of forgiveness, the very manifestation of equipoise.
How would he be affected? But Goshala bound himself in Mahamohaniya Karma that increases the worldly life. What a frightful result for forgetting the benevolence of the benefactor!
Brothers! Think! Had Goshala dedicated himself to Prabhu's feet and accepting His omniscience, put in devoted practice on the path shown by Him, he could have attained the other shore of the worldly life.
Thus, a jiva gets bound in Mahamohaniya Karma in many ways. A jiva ought to think about these reasons. If such is the case in its own life, if there are such reasons then it has to be wary of them. It is necessary that it awakens up to them. Otherwise it may have to go wandering in the ocean of lives.
After having given us the best principles of Vinay Dharma, Srimadji goes on to explain, in the following gathas, as to who can understand and accept these matters that help realise the soul.
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