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counsellers and which are sources of misery.
3 You should move about thus with carefulness. You should eat thus. You should sleep thus. You should talk thus. All these were explained by the preceptor
Then, making his body lean by the continuous observance of fastings of two days, three days, and thirty days at a time, by going about unrestrictedly in villages, towns, cities, by studying diligently the rituals of an ascetic, by becoming perfectly occupied in ceremonials prescribed by the Siddhāntas, and by the destruction of all his Karmas, while protecting-Samyama Dharma (duty of an ascetic) as if it were his own wealth, King Narasimha eventually attained Final-Emancipation. His son King Nara Vikrama ruled over the kingdom of two places, and, having entrusted the government of the two kingdoms to his sons, he, also, took Bhāgavati dikşa. After practising severe penance, he was born as a god in Māhéndra dévaloka
End of King Narasimha's Story. “ O King Nandana ! I Darrated the life-incidents of excellent persons as desired by you. By hearing it, O King! You, also, engage yourself so diligently in religious practices that, in a short time, your life may become examplary to excellent persons.
On hearing this, King Nandana prompted by an intense feeling of abhorence to worldly objects, idquested Guru Mahārāja "O Bhagavan You are like a shower of nectar to living beings heated by the fire of worldly aniseries, like a treasure of eatables to hungry persons, like Cintāmaņi (thought-gem capable of fal filling all desires ) to people dominated by misfortune, like a lamp capable of illuminating objects in a mountain-cave invisible through darkness, like a residential-island for persons drowned in a great ocean, and you are like an excellent Sarthavaha leader of a carayan) to people making valn struggles for finding out & way in a dreadful forest. I was very fortunate in meeting with you. O ornament of the noble lineage of compassion ! !
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