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of actions in previous births. This is then the place of supreme peace, bringing happiness in this world and the next to those; who are smarting under the insults of kings; who are crushed by miseries of poverty; who are vexed with the stigma of bad fortune; who are burning with the fire of separation from the dear ones. In this case,
The forest-dwellers are always fortunate in the fact that they do not perceive the torment resulting from attachment; nor the insults from people; nor the fall in a low state. ( 45 )
So advised, Agnis’armah said “Revered sir, that is it no doubt; if your worship has mercy on me or if I am fit for this particular observnnce, (10) do me the favour by initiating me in this observance." The sage replied “I will do you the favour, my lad, since you are bent upon the path of non-attachment; who else can be fit for it?” Then, as some days passed, he told him in details about the ways of conduct of his (own hermitage) and gave him the initiation to a hermit-life at the auspicious moment of time, day-division and date. He had highly felt the non-attachment born of acute insults; and on the very day of initiation, he took a grim vow in the presence of the patriarch surrounded by all hermits; namely, “All through life, I will eat once every month and on the fast-breaking day, I will return with the first entrance in the city) and from the first house, even though I get alms or not and will not go to another house.” Thus of him, observing the vow taken, many millions of Purvas elapsed. And of the people, residing in Vasantapura,which was situated near the penance
