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dust of the feet of such pious Sadhüs can only be touched by meritorious persons. You should not, therefore, be pained at being touched by the feet of these worthy Sādhus ” On hearing these words of śramaņa Bhagavan Mahavira, Mégha Kumāra had a remembrance of his previous lives. After remembering the accounts of his previous two lives, Mégha Kumāra, getting indifferent to worldly pleasures, bowed down before the Bhagavín and said " O lord ! O master! May you live long. Just as a clever charioteer brings a chariot going astray to the right path, in the same manner, you have brought me back to the right path. My lord ! you have saved
me."
Megha Kumāra being thus advised, became steady in observing his duties as an ascetic, and he took an oath that he should not take treatment-medicinal or physical-for any other portion of his body, except bis two eyes, even under any calamitous circumstance. Fiaving taken such a life-loug path, having carefully observed his duties as an ascetic without any defect, having practisce severe austerities, and at the end of his life remaining without food and water for one month, Megha Kumāra died, and way born as a god in Vijaya Anuttara Vimāna. Descending from there, he will acquire Liberation in Mabā Vidéha kşeira, Thus, Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahavira is a clever charioteer of the chariot of Dharma.
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