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way when he saw a sesame plant with seven flowers, he asked the Lord - “Lord! Will this plant beget fruits?” The Lord said _“Yes, the plant will bear fruits and all the seven flowers' life will emerge from this one seedpod." To falsify the Lord's words, Go laka stopped for a moment, uprooted that plant, and threw it far away. By coincidence, within minutes, it rained there and the uprooted sesame plant stood up again. From there the Lord reached K rmagr ma. There an ascetic named ‘Vai y yana' was standing outside the village facing the sun with both his hands raised upwards in penance. Due to the heat, lice were coming out from his long locks and falling to the ground and the ascetic was again placing them back on his hair. When Go laka saw this, he asked the ascetic - “Are you an ascetic or a home of lice?” The ascetic remained quiet. When Go laka kept questioning him persistently, the ascetic got angry and spewed hot flash at him. Go laka ran in fear and fell at the Lord's feet. Out of compassion, the Lord doused the fire with a cool flash and saved Go laka.
After sometime, the Lord again left for Siddh rthapura. Reaching the sesame field, Go laka remembered the old question. He asked the Lord, “Lord, what happened to your prediction?” The Lord said, “That plant you see is the one you uprooted and threw.” Go laka was not ready to believe the Lord. He went to that sesame plant and when he broke the pod, seven sesame fruits came out. With this incidence, he became a confirmed fatalist. From there Go laka left Lord's company and began to think of starting his own sect.
From Siddh rthapura, the Lord reached Vai 1. There outside the city he stood in meditation at a spot. Boys passing by, thinking him to be a demon started troubling him. By coincidence, king Siddh rtha's close friend amkha - bh pati was passing through that place. He sent the boys away explaining to them, and paid obeisance to the Lord. From there the Lord reached '
V iyagr ma'. On the way, to cross the river Gamdak, he had to sit on a boat. When the boatman asked for a fee, the Lord remained silent. Angry, the boatman made him stand on hot sand. Incidentally, Citra, the son of king amkha's sister, came that way.
<plaining to the boatman, he released the Lord. At V iyagr ma, a monk named nanda of the Pr van tha tradition had attained clairvoyant knowledge. He used to do penance facing the sun and observing fasts. Seeing the Lord he paid obeisance to him and said –
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