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hall, fasting and deep in spiritual contemplation, when a feeling emerged in him – “Those people are blessed who have seen the rama a Mah v ra, listen to him and, serving him, do good. When will I get such a golden opportunity?"
The next day, leaving Camp city, the Lord arrived at the M gavana garden in V tabhaya city. On knowing this, Ud yana was beyond himself with joy hearing and saw his dream come true. Getting up from his throne, with intense feeling, he prayed to the Lord and reached the garden with his family members and others. The detached sermon of the Lord had such an impact on Ud yana that he requested the Lord – "I want to take initiation, handing over my kingdom to my son Abh cikum ra.” The Lord said – “Do not delay doing the work that gives you happiness".
Feeling very happy, king Ud yana was returning to his palace. On the way a thought occurred to him – "If I hand over this kingdom, which I am giving up for it being a cause for great sorrow, to my son as a successor, if he becomes attached to it he will expand his worldly attachment. Hence let me give it to my nephew, Ke kum ra, in place of my son.” Accordingly, he made Ke kum ra the successor of his vast kingdom and became a monk taking initiation from Lord Mah v ra.
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Being denied his paternal rights to the kingdom by his father, Abh cikum ra felt deeply wounded, yet he obeyed every word of his father and peacefully went to Camp to the emperor of Magadha,
ika. His father's act pained him for long like a thorn. In spite of being a dedicated devotee of Lord Mah v ra, he did not even salute his father, monk Ud yana in his lifetime, and keeping this resentment in his mind, observing the r vaka conduct, completing his life with a month's samlekhan , without repenting the bad feeling towards his father, he became a demon god, Asurakum ra. On completing his life span as Asurakum ra; he will be born in Mah Videha and shall attain enlightenment, emancipation and liberation.
Maha rama a Ud yana, after initiation, studied the eleven Amgas and became immersed in observing severe penance, etc. to annihilate all his karmas. Because of different kinds of intense penance, his body had
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