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of Suhasti, great Muni shiv Acharya came to Suhasti. Seeing the divink necelace around the neck of Acharya Suhasti, the words 'Fear' slipped out of his mouth.
Abhaykumar was surprised and asked though the Jain monks devoid of all attachment have nothing to fear, why such words were uttered by him.
The Muni explained that he was reminded of one incident that had happened in his worldly life which he lived before renunciation.
Abhrykumar asked with curiosity :
“Holy Teacher ! What is that incident :”
Munishree Shiv said :
“There were two brothers in the city of Ujjayinee. One's name was shiv and the name of the other was Nagdatt. Regard me as Shiv. We both took to agriculture in Saurashtra to remove poverty and then afterwards I went abroad for trade.