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24°45. ] Nyāya-Kusumānjali is seen in the case of gold that is thrown in fire. Thou wilt not get better benefactors than these, for they help thee, though they destroy their own merit and commit sin, as they are engaged in evil thoughts and deeds. Thou must rather feel pity for these people as they are thus degrading their own soul."
People continued to harass him for a month and a half. At the end of that period, when he found that they had ceased to take notice of him, he went to the eastern gate and took up the same posture. Sometimes, when he went in the village to beg alms, he was insulted and was given no bread to eat, and was, on the contrary, reminded of evil deeds. So he passed a month and a half at this gate. Thereafter he similarly passed a month and a half at each of the other two gates-the southein and the western. By thus observing fasts for six months running and remaining steady in meditation he annibilated most of bis Karmans. His fortitude, meditation and concentration reached the utmost limit. At last he ceased even to care for his body and began to ponder over the natural state of the soul with a calm mind, looking upon friend and foe, gold and dirt, pleasure and pain and Samsara and Moksha in the same light. This was the final state of Yoga that he now entered. He burnt the fuel of Karmans by the fire of Yoga and thus became within six months omniscient and as his Ayushya Karman also expired, he attained salvation. It is thus clear that even Dridha-prahari who was to be
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