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etc. and which is fanned with the wind of ignorance ?" He stood silent and was not enlightened.
They went a certain distance. The god proceeded by the forest-path which was full of sharp thorns. The other said, “Why do you, giving up the proper path, enter the forest ?" The god said, “ Do you know this much?” He said, "How can I not know ?" The god said, " If you know, then how [76] do you, giving up the path of absolution, enter the forest of worldly existence, full of wild beasts in the form of a number of difficulties ?” He stood silent and was not enlightened.
They went some way further. They halted at a village-temple. There also, a Vyānavyantara god, being worshipped by people fell upside down. He said, ." Oh, the misfortune of this Vyānvyantara god that he though worshipped and placed up, falls upside down !' The god said, “Do you know this ?" He said, “ What is to be known in this ?” The god said, "If it is so, why do you, though raised up to the place worthy
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