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As Ārya Rakşita Sūri was feeling more and more tired of his studies, he once asked the Guruji, “Still, how will this proceed, My lord ?'
“Go on with your work ! Think not of anything else except studies l" replied the Guruji.
But after a siiort time he again asked him the same question. The Guruji said “The petty done; the undone vast l' You have still gathered only a drop from that ocean! You have still gathered only a drop from that oceani You have only walked a few steps; still you have to reach the top of that Himālaya' Be not tired I Go on studying !" But it was very difficult for him to 'go on'He felt that it was not so easy as it seemed to him before. His younger brother also repeatedly reminded him of his mother ! So once he approached the Guruji, asked for his permission to go, and added, " I shall at once return back after meeting my mother, and begin my studies !" Vājra Swami say by his supernatural vision that his own life was not so long as to survive till Arya Rakṣita Sūri would return, and that his studies would never he completed ! But how could the dream be rendered fruitless ? In his dream also he had seen that the pot was not wholly consumed; here also arose the circumstance when there was no possibility of Raksita Sūri's finishing up the tenth Pūrya! Atlast as his request was granted Ārya Rakşita started for home. On the way he visited Păţaliputra where lived his former Guruji Tosaliputra whom he met. And then he came to his native place-Daşapura. There he met his parents, preached them and succeed in convincing them to accept Dik ā. Somadeva also became a Jaina-Monk; but he disliked to remain naked, to go for Giocary, to wander bear-footed, to abandon the sacred thread etc. But Ārya Rak
ita Sūri skilfully, convinced him to abandon them one by one, and atlast made him a true Jaina-Monk.
Ārya Rakşita Súri had many pupils amongst whom these were more prominent and intelligent: Ghruta-Puśpamitra,
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