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less TEET Pravrajya-Religious mendicancy, which is like a saw in cutting wood in the form of Samsāra
On hearing the preaching, Baladéva Acala Kumāra left off all his sorrowful state, and said: “O Bhagavān ! You have compassionately, and benevolently given me the True Preaching; now, do me the favour of giving me, just now, the blameless que Pravrajya Religious mendicancy. On knowing the genuine inclination of his mind, the Acārya, adorned him with the paramount supremacy of ascetic life, gave him instructions in duties of an ascetic, and showed him the correct procedure in the observance of the ten varieties of the duties of a true ascetic
Acala Muni acquired a vast amount of knowledge. Then going unhindered from village to village, and town to town, and having withered away his body, and the mass of all his Karmas by the practice of extraordinarily hard penances for some time, Acala Muni attained the eternal, blissful, Liberation.
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