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78.
SĀRĀVALI PRAKĪRŅAKA : 25 I am still struggling with the habit of complaining against the weak. In spite of my being of such degrading habits, I have danced in the skies joyfully.
79.
Having realized this, now I adopt the path as preached by the Lords Jina."
80.
As his thought-process became purer and purer he shed the karmic bondage accumulated in that birth as well as in the previous births.
81.
Having made up his mind to accept ordination as a monk, he plucked all his hair in five handfuls.
82.
His spiritual hues (Leśyā) having become purified, St. Nārada grew unattached towards the mundane and gained omniscience, which is the essence of the three worlds.
83.
All the ten million others also gained omniscience and attained spiritual salvation by shedding their karmic bondage in the front portion of the satrunjaya hill.
84.
Another thirty-five million midget monks became ultimateaccomplished by bearing the hardship of heat in the open.*
Here, we have accepted the meaning according to the text 'āyāvanena' instead of "āyākhanena' as per the note by Muni Punyavijayajī.
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