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to enjoy worldly delights. This desire for worldly delights which
d been latent in him manifested itself outwardly. Prabhas muni who had attained great spiritual excellence, within a moment fell into the snares of attachments. The desire for royal splendour and enjoyments arose in the great muni. Prabhas muni had carried out many spiritual austerities. He had faced many agonies and impediments in his life. He had also attained great knowledge. He knew very well that he could fulfil his desire by virtue of his spiritual excellence. So, he made a firm determination, "As a result of my spiritual excellence, I should become a great King like Kanakaprabha and must enjoy inordinate prosperity and splendour. I will become a great and prosperous King like him and I will also attain knowledge and spiritual propensities which will make me an outstanding hero in the three worlds”.
Prabhas muni after completing the span of his life was born in the third heaven.
In course of time, after the span of his life ended in the third heaven, Vajrakant took birth as Ravan, the mighty King of Lanka".
"Revered Lord ! Kindly tell me about my earlier janmas”. Vibhishan said with evident enthusiasm.
"You know Yagnavalkya was a neighbour of Dhan Dutt and Vasu Dutt and a great friend of theirs. He, wandering through many Janmas, is Vibhishan now. That is yourself”.
"But Gurudev, what happened to Shribhuti who was killed by Vajrakant. Where was he born after his death? Where is he now ?”
“O! that Shribhuti....' At the time of his death he kept reciting the Namaskar Mahamantra. Therefore he was born in the heavenly world and after completing the span of his life there he was born in Supratishtapur as a Vidyadhar by name Punarvasu.
Once Punarvasu happened to go to a certain area called Pundrikvijay. Tribhuvananand was the ruler of Pundrikvijay.
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