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Actually there is no place for hearsays and particularly achieving impossible feats in history. However the hearsays prevailing over centuries especially about some miracles make a deep impact on the minds of the people. Thus the relationship of the miraculous powers of mantras and tantras in India affected and resulted in the pervert view of pure rama a doctrine and stayed with the c ryas of temple dwellers congregation for centuries as a potent weapon for attracting followers.
Khima i (K am
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c rya Ya obhadra of S mdera gaccha (temple dwellers congregation) had many disciples besides his two principal ones i.e. Balibhadra and
libhadra. One of such disciples was a profound saint and apostle of forgiveness named Khima i. His following life sketch is available.
In the village Badag mva near Cittauda, a very poor trader by the name Bodh used to live. He used to trade in oil and sometimes in ghee to earn his livelihood. Actually he was a trader in name only. He used to collect two or three kilos of oil or ghee and fill it in a pot to sell it in a nearby town. Whatever little money he could earn from this, he used to make his both ends meet.
Trader Bodh while thinking of his abject poverty developed detachment from this world. Fortunately he had the opportunity to listen to the sermons of c rya Ya obhadra and got himself initiated in rama a monkhood by him.
While serving his teacher for three years and performing penance, he acquired the knowledge of doctrine. Afterwards seeking the permission of his guru, Bodh went to cremation grounds, caves and desolate places to perform severe penances. Enduring all kind of afflictions, tortures and difficulties, he maintained equanimity and absorbed in self contemplations.
In those days when he was busy performing penance in a forest near a pond of village Dh manoda near Avantinagara, a number of Brahmin youths used to come there and inflict many types of physical pains on him. Bodh i used to neither get angry on them nor disturb his contemplation on self. With such tolerance and forgiving powers and severe penance, he suddenly acquired a number of extraordinary powers.
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