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by Gunasen. After he became a 'tapas', Gunasen had missed out on two of Agnisharma’s ‘paranas' (breaking of a month long fast on two occasions). Agnisharma had started his third, month long fast and had really progressed in cultivating equanimity. He had generosity, forgiveness which would gladden anyone's heart. However, when Gunasen missed out on offering him food for breaking his third month long fast, he got upset and turned hostile. What was the result? Gunasen kept surmounting peaks of achievements and virtues successively, kept rising to higher and higher devloks’ and attained more and more prosperity. At the end, in his last birth as Samaraditya, he destroyed all his karmas and attained salvation. As for Agnisharma, in his various births that followed, he was either the son, the wife or the brother of the same virtuous, loving, prideless Gunasen. He was always restless due to his sinful nature, terrible 'vairanubandh’, constant treachery and betrayal because of which he had to bear progressively greater terrible miseries of hell. Even after Samaraditya's liberation, he had to transmigrate in the ‘samsara' for an infinite time, with a lot of suffering. Thereafter, by assimilating forgiveness, he achieved the well-being of his soul.
Let us also remember the serpent Chandakaushika. Although Gobhadra Brahmin was not blessed to be
Tapas = an ascetic Devlok = Heaven Vairanubandh = It is a revengeful psyche manifested in this life due to fruition of karma, which causes binding of karmas afresh, which in turn perpetuates revengeful disposition in future lives.
