Book Title: Reap What You Sow Diwakar Chitrakatha 022
Author(s): Pushpavati Sadhvi, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Mahavir Seva Trust Mumbai
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REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Filled with tender sentiments, the Chakravarti said
This tale of five births told by the ascetic astonished everyone
How strange are the consequences
of karmas a being has to suffer!!
Revered one! All this grandeur is your to ask. You are young, please enjoy it. When you turn old you could become ascetic and
do spiritual practices ...
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The ascetic said
Chakravarti! You are deliberately forgetting how much we suffered due to our
karmas in our earlier births. We destroyed those karmas only through penance. Now for mundane pleasures don't indulge
in evil karmas ...
Brahm-datt said,
Revered one! Indeed I know that the end result of violence is
bad rebirth but ...
But what?
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SM 09.
Revered one! I am in the same predicament as an elephant trapped in a deep swamp who cannot come out of
it in spite of all its efforts.
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