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JAINA STORIES
"But if bad thoughts come up with a vehemence, they may move out also with a vehemence. Sıva took out the golden man and threw it in the tank. Datta was startled as he saw this, but when Sıva revealed his mental state, Datta said, 'You have done a right thing. In my mind too, a similar idea was creeping in'
"The golden man was swallowed by a fish which was in turn caught by a fisherman As the fish, with the golden man in its belly, had a great weight, it fetched him a good price And who bought the fish? Well, it was bought by the mother of Siva and Datta who had organised a banquet to celebrate the home-coming of her dear boys She gave the fish to her daughter to prepare a good curry out of it. As the daughter Cut the fish, came out the golden man and she at once hid it in her arm-pit But the mother noticed it and she enquired what it was The girl would not divulge the secret The two started argung and soon came to blows In the tussle that followed, the golden man dropped down from the arm-pit right on the mother's head killing the poor lady on the spot. When the two brothers heard the noise, they Tushed to the spot They saw the golden man lying on one side, and the dead mother on the other, and the sister stood in confusion How true the golden man's words had proved to be? The two brothers renounced the world and joined the holy order of monks. Here am I'
"Concluding his observation, monk Sıva told Abhayakumar' 'In the household order, I had experienced fear because of possession, and the memory of it came up just not So I said, Fear exists'
"At the end of the second quarter, when monk Subrata came back after attending the Acharya, there came out from his lips the following words 'Great Fear' Abhayakumar repeated a similar enquiry, when the monk narrated his own account of the experience he had in the household order, which was as follows:
