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He fell down on the ground by a push from a cow. Visakhānandi born in a royal family but a mean-minded fellow-cracks jokes at the wasted strength of Visvabhūti Muni out of eavy and ignorance. Viśvabhūtt Mual overhears the actual wording of the jokes.
Ascetics have to undergo a variety of ordeals during their ascetic life. The number of such itere Parísahas-ordeals is twenty-two. If people desirous of self-realization, bear with perfect equanimity any one of these twenty-two ordeals, then, every one of these ordeals becomes a source of destruction of old Karmas and stoppage of the bondage of new Karmas, and it thus does the service of a true friend in bringing them nearer to Final Emancipation,
The cracking of jokes done by Visākhānandi and his retinue in the tweltb ordeal named aurten Akrosa ParisabaAn ordeal of abuses-If an ignorant person, out of anger or euvy foolishly abuses a saint or uses insulting words against him, the saint or ascetic should not be angry with the person using such filthy language but he should think thus :-" The person using abusive language against me, does me some service because even though the words used for me may be true or may not be true it is not fit for me to be angry with him.” With this idea in his mind, the saint or ascetic should not be angry with him but he should calmly bear the ordeal.
The following is one of the commandments of the Sāstras with relation to the practice of austerities :
चविहा खलु तवसमाही भवइ, तं जहा-नो इहलोगहयाए तवमहिहिजा १, नो परलोगट्टयाए २, नो कित्ति-वष्ण-सद्ध-सिलोगट्ठाए ववमहिहिजा ३, ननत्य निजरयाए वहिहिजा ४, चउत्यं पयं भवइ,
भवह य एत्य सिलोगोविविहगुण-तबो-रए य निचं मवइ निरासप निनरदिए ।
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