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On seeing his strange apparel, people used to go to him with the object of hearing some religious discourses, but Kapila being ignorant of the Sastras of the Jaina Sādhūs, and of the correct mode of preaching, thought :
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Yuktayukta-parijñāna-śūnya cittasya dèhinaḥ; Alabadhamadhyatāhètu-r-maunam sarvārtha sādbanam. 1.
युक्तायुक्त परिशानशून्यचित्तस्य देहिनः । अलब्धमध्यता हेतुमनं सर्वार्थसाधनम् ॥ १ ॥
1. With people devoid of discrimination between what is suit able and what is not, but who are ignorant of the internal motive, silence is the means of accomplishing every thing.
He, thereupon, began to pass his days in deep silence.
Having duly initiated Prince argft Asuri and other pupils as Parivrājaka mendicants, having taught them requisite external ceremonies, and having practised penance ignorantly for a long time, Kapila died, and was born as a god in sgtaste Brahma deva-loka.
Becoming extremely astonished there, with wonderful celestial wealth never heard of or never seen before, Kapila thought within himself "Methinks, could I have practised very difficult penance? Or, could I have observed excellent and spotless celibacy as pure as the Moon? Or, could I have given food and other materials bought from the wealth earned by my personal labour to deserving Sadhus, who were very attentive to difficult penance and religious observances? Or, becoming adventurous, could I have consigned my body to the blazing flames of a series of fires?"
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After indulging for a while in a variety of doubtful speculation, Kapila through the medium of his in-born araferner Avadhi Jñāna, (Visual Knowledge), saw his own consecrated but lifeless body lying there, and also saw his own pupils who were perfectly ignorant of the correct meaning of the teachings of the Sastras.
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