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and strong. Goshala began to look pale before the radiant Prabhu. Goshala used to call himself Jina, arhat and sarvajna, and used to get propitiated. However, now everybody realised who the true Jineshwar was. Goshala's fraud was ripped open and he was full of anger. Indeed, how could he tolerate the Indras propitiating Bhagwan Mahaveer? And the fire of animosity flared. To prove that Mahaveer was a fraud and not a sarvajna and that he - Goshala - alone was the true sarvajna, he ran to the Prabhu to use his attained powers.
Reaching there he began to insult the Prabhu through an attack of words. When Prabhu maintained silence, Goshala became more provoked, forgot Prabhu's benevolence upon him and directed his tejoleshya (energy-fire) towards Prabhu. Flames started emanating from his mouth and eyes and reached Prabhu's body. Prabhu was a great person, endowed with a strong punya of Jina namakarma. Therefore, the great fire could not burn him. The flames turned back after going around Mahaveer's body thrice and started burning Goshala. He began to cry in great unbearable pain. Then Prabhu released his sheetal-leshya (pacifying energy) and doused the fire.
Brothers! Think! What is this? Goshala, burning in the fire of animosity, never thought, “Who am I planning to kill? Can I not bear the respect-propitiation-success of that person whom I had once accepted in the form of my Guru, whose disciple-hood I had accepted? Am I trying to prove the sarvajna to be wrong? How very ignorant of me!' Why! He had lakhs of disciples. Was he not scared that his deception would be seen through? He became infamous in the pages of history.
Who was responsible for this? The ignorance. That is why Srimadji has said that such pitiable jivas do not recognise the sages and become the Guru's traitors. They renege against the sages. That is why it is very important to attain unity between
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