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returning to his palace after the discourse when he saw Dhamdha a going for his alms. Alighting from his elephant he saluted Dhamdha a with respect. One merchant was seeing all this. This monk is blessed that rk a is saluting him with such devotion.
By coincidence, Dhamdha a muni was going to that same merchant's house to beg for food. Happily the merchant offered sweets to Dhamdha a. Taking this offering, Dhamdha a went to the Lord and saluting him, asked – “Is my antar ya karma destroyed?” The Lord replied – “No, you have got your offering because of the influence of Hari. Hari saluted you, hence influenced by that, the merchant has given you this offering.'
Dhamdha a did not allow any attachment towards the offering. He went to throw the food on a ground. While doing so, pure thoughts entered his mind – “Oh! How difficult it is to destroy karmas accumulated. While doing bad deeds stuck in passion a person does not think one day he has to bear their consequences.” Thinking thus, he went into the second stage of deep meditation. In this state of meditation he destroyed all the four obscuring karmas and attained pure intuition and omniscience. From that bare ground monk Dhamdha a returned to the Lord and, saluting him, sat in the omniscient congregation. After sometime, destroying all karmas, he became omniscient, enlightened and liberated.
The great wonder in Lord Ari anemi's time
rk a doted on the P davas who at that time ruled Hastin pura. Once, sage N rada reached Hastin pura and went to Draupadi's palace. The P davas welcomed N rada and Draupadi did not pay him much attention on account of his being devoid of vows. N rada was upset with this insult and left from there with a feeling of avenging this insult. With that same feeling of unrest he went to the women-loving king Padman bha's palace in Amarakamk city in Dh tak kha da in Bharata. King Padman bha welcomed N rada in a big way and took him to his harem. There, pointing to his queens, each more beautiful than the other, he said – “Oh sage! You must have seen harems of many kings, think and tell me, are there any queens in those harems who can compare with the beauty of my queens?" N rada was just waiting for that occasion. He said - "Oh king! Where have you seen the harems? All your queens look
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