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of fasting for two, three, and more days, acquired by hospitable treatment of his Guru, young and diseased ascetics, and of learned men, and nourished by the observance of the rites of the ten kinds of duties of a Sadhu, was burnt away in a moment like a piece of straw by the fire of vehement anger. Owing to that reason, all the acts of persons devoid of mental calm are useless, and severe austerities appear like mere starvation. Mental tranquility is the essence of all virtuous qualities like Mount Méru among mountains, like river Ganges among rivers, like the lion among beasts, like the eagle among birds, like the cobra-snake among all snakes, like a Jinésvara among Sādhūs, and it is like Cintamani (thoughtgem) among gems Every one should, therefore, endeavour to acquire it more and more. What more can be said about it?
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Having completed his divine existence as a god among Jyotisk gods, and having descended from déva-loka, the soul of Gobhadra Muni took the form of a foetus in the womb of the wife of the kula-pati ( head ) of the 500 families of tāpasas (hermits) in the Kanakakhala Asrama After his birth at suitable time, he was named Kausika. He was naturally prone to violent anger, and he used 10 punish tāpasa boys severely even for slight offences. The tāpasa-boys complained before their parents and mentioned the name of Kausikā but as there were other boys bearing the name of Kausika, the offending boy could not be easily made known Kausika's proneness vehement anger became widely known, and he was, consequently named Canda Kausika. Thence-forward he came to be known as Canda Kausika.
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On the death of the then-existing kulapati, Canda Kausika was appointed as a kulapati by the tāpasas Canda Kausika was devoutly attached to the garden. He was passing his days in watering and nourishing rare trees. He forcibly prevented tāpasas from taking flowers and fruits from the garden, Unable to obtain even a flowers from the garden, some of the hermits, with the
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