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lord said, “ Your birth will be in the city of Kausa'ambi in the southern half of Bharata in the Jambu-dvipa. You will be awakened to knowledge with great difficulty. You have taken up the seed of ignorance in this way by the malice to your teacher." The account of his previous birth was fully narrated to him. He then contemplated, “ Alas, the result of even this much malice towards the teacher is so terrible !" The revered lord said, “O beloved of gods, it is less in this case. Here indeed, a grateful man should think well of the benefactor of this world; what then to talk of the benefactor of the other world? The teachers are the benefactors of the other world; because they destroy the disease of false knowledge; they drive away the darkness of ignorance; they put one in the process which help to aquire the highest place; drive one onward through obstacles ; and deposit in one the jewels in the form of merits. Thus, o beloved of gods, they free one from the existence in this world which is full of birth, old age, death, disease and grief; and take one to absolution and highest happiness. Then ma
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