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day at a very lucky noinent. Gobhadra thus became a Sadhu practising severe austerities. His days passed happily, in faultlessly observing the duties of a Sãdhu, in carefully enduring hardships, in giving attention to the treatment of young and aged ascetics, in studying Siddhantar and knowing their essential meaning, and in practising severe austerities. One day by doing fasting of one month's duration at & time, with the permission of his Guru, his body became greatly emaciated, but he spared no pains in the service of the young and diseased.
One day, when the saint was going on a begging-tour accompanied by a young ascetic, a little frog happened to die by being accidentally crushed under his fooi, although he was very carefully walking with his eyes fixed attentively for a distance of one Yuga (four-hand length ), and the young ascetic following him said, “ O Compassionate Sadhu ! you have killed thio frog, so please see carefully.” On hearing this, the saint angrily pointing out some frogs crushed under the feet of other person, vehementiy retorted, “Ab! malevolent creature ! Did I kill this also ? Did I kill that! and the young ascetic thought that he ( the saint ) will ask for expiatory rites in the evening prati. kramaņa ( the daily religious ceremonies of expiatory rices ) from the Guru, and so he remained silent &t that time.
During the evening pratikrumaņa of that day, the sains did all his routine religious rites; but as soon as the young ascetic reminded him of the frog accident, lest he did not forget its atonernent, his mature judgment disappeared on account of his body being heated by severe austerities and also on account of easily attainable wrath by birth in a Brābmin family, and he quickly ran after the young ascetic with the object of assaulting him but his head was dashed against a strong pillar, and from a blow on a vital part, he died with wicked ideas hostile to right conduct, and was born as a god among Jyotisk gods.
Such difficalties do arise in case of persons errsjaved by ánger. The unique meritorious Karma arising from severe austeritier
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