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By using the hot flash repeatedly, Go laka became lack-lustre and the energy of his penance became deadly for him. By using the hot flash against the Lord, he had rendered himself corrupt and power-less. With the Lord's permission, the nirgransthas made him speechless with their questions. He was disappointed with his defeat. To cool down the hot flashes he began to drink water and pour water over his head.
Go laka told his elder monks of j vaka cult that after his death his body should be bathed in scented water, decked in valuable ornaments and taken in procession with honour and let it be announced that Go laka was the 24"Trthamkara jina and he became enlightened, emancipated and liberated. Suddenly on the 7" night, his eyes became clear and pure. His illusion had disappeared. In his mind he came to repent that despite being a non-jina, he was claiming to be a jina. It was wrong on his part to attack the rama a monks and hate his spiritual teacher. Lord Mah v ra is the true jina and T rthamkara. He at one once called all the monks and said _“Whatever I said about myself are all false. I am not a jina. Hence when I die, as a mark of repentance, spit on me thrice and tying my feet with a rope, drag my body through the streets of r vast , declaring that Go laka was not a jina, Mah v ra is the jina." He made them take an oath to this effect and died on the seventh night. When he died, the monks thought to do as told would demean them. Hence, to protect themselves from the fault of having disrespected the instructions, together they counseled with each other and at Go laka's residence they instructed the potter, Halahal, to recreate the scene of r vast there, and after taking the body around thrice, they took out a procession and respectfully completed Go laka's last rites.
The Lord's Cure
Reaching Medhiy gr ma the Lord sat on a stone on the ground in the 'S la Ko haka caitya' outside the village. At that time, the Lord experienced extreme pain in his body due to Go laka's hot flash attack. He also developed blood dysentery. The Lord bore them peacefully. At that time, a noble-looking disciple of the Lord, Sh muni, was in M luy kaccha. Observing a fast, he was meditating when he sensed in hi mind that his spiritual teacher has developed a big illness and if he dies in this state, people will think he died during monkhood. With this thought, S h started crying and wailing. When the Lord sensed this state of Sh , he called and said -“There is no need to be sad over imagining
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