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Amrapali on the earth was just like Urvashi is in the heaven. Know not, how beautiful she was, but more beautiful than her beauty was her heart, that is why not all of her wealth, but she had sacrificed even her entire Self at the feet of Bhagawan Buddha.
Let me now give you introduction of Bhadra Muni also. His conduct was not like several other Jain Monks, even though he was a Jain Monk. He was wandering lonely and just like "EKSHATAKA" Monk, he was wearing one loin cloth, that too from waste to knees only. In form of his possessions was only one KAMANDALU for waster. He was consuming his food only in hands and that too once a day. His time was being passed either in Meditations or in Discourses. Neither he was giving his Sermons and Guidings forcibly to anyone, nor he was residing in any house-holder's building. He was normally staying either in the forests or in mountain-caves. He would stay either in a Dharmashala or in any broken-relinquished house, if he will come in population. Those who don't make their own publicity-propaganda, find it difficult to get their followers. They only were his devotees or loving followers, who reluctantly or forcibly came in his contact like me. But he was not accepting anything from us. Therefore when I met him today after coming suddenly to Vaishali, I thought of staying with him for one or two days.
It was still sometime for evening twilight to come. We were passing through a field and all of a sudden a soft lump of clay fell down in front of us, scattered and spreded all over. We looked towards the direction from
Page 2 where this lump of clay had come. We saw a young boy of farmer standing in that field and looking towards us. We didn't know whether that lump of clay was purposely thrown to us or not. Maybe, due to playfulness, he was throwing these lumps here and there in the field itself and one of them co-incidentally came in front of us. I saw along with that lump of play a worm too which was cut into so many pieces spreaded all over. I thought, as if in the morning when the field was being ploughed, the sharp edges of the plough might have cut its body into pieces. For always being with Saints or for other reason, my mind was compassionately hurt too much on seeing this. As I was looking thus at the broken pieces of that worm's body, Bhadra Muni spoke out,
"It is yielding and suffering the fruit of its previous Karmas”. Astonished to hear this, I started looking towards him and asked, "Who is this worm? What are its Karmas that he took birth as a worm and why it had to bear all these tortures today?". "You will listen these all from its own mouth only".
