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Lord -“Lord! Will r vaka Madduka become a monk?” The Lord said - “No, he will remain a householder and complete his life with piety and become a god in the Aru bha vim na. Again in a rebirth as a human being, he will take to the path of restraint and become enlightened, emancipated and liberated." The Lord completed that rainy season halt (c turm sa) at R jag ha.
22nd Year as Keval
Leaving R jag ha, wandering through many places the Lord again returned to R jag ha and stayed at Gu a la caitya. Once when Indrabh ti was returning to Gu a la caitya after taking alms he met two tairthikas K lod y and ailod y on the way. They said it would be good if you can explain to us the correct essence of the pamc stik ya, such as dharm stik ya, etc, that your teacher, the spiritual preceptor, k atriya-son Mah v ra propounds. Gautama said, in brief -“We do not talk of the nonexistents as the existents and the existents as the non-existents. With particular reflection you will understand the secret.” Saying this, Gautama moved ahead, without resolving his problem. Therefore, he too followed Gautama to the Lord. The Lord explained to him about pamc stik ya and seeing an appropriate moment gave a sermon, inspired by which K lod y took initiation into the nirgrantha order and became a monk and after studying the 11 Amgas in sequential order, he became an expert in the secret of discourse.
To the northeast of R jag ha was the city N land. Once, the Lord was sitting in the garden Hastigr ma near a hall named e a-dravik . There a monk of the P r va tradition, Pedh laputra Udaka met Indrabh ti. To resolving a query by Udaka with regard to the vow of non-killing, Indrabh ti said that the one who gives up violence on mobile living beings (or a being with one or two senses) is giving up violence on that being in the present. It is not important; whether it was an immobile being (plants, etc) or a mobile being in the past. Violence on that is prohibited against the mobile living beings in the present existence. A renouner's objective is with the present state of being; what was in the past, or will be in the future, only the knowledgeable can know it. Hence, they who observe the vows taken but are unable to totally give up violence and accept the monk's conduct, have a good outcome. Thus, a
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