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Gobara-gama atama (Gobbra or Goyaraya.) neal? ET ACI Rājagriha Nagari in the year 599 B. c. He was a Brahmin by caste and was well-versed in the four Vedas and in the six Igin Upāngas, Supplementary Sciences.
He had five hundred pupils who were receiving instruction in various branches of learning under him. He was very often busy in performing various of Yagnas, Sacrifices to numerous gods and goddesses.
Vayubhūti had a doubt about the relation of the Body and the Soul. When he heard that both his brothers Indrabhūti and Agnibhūti had become disciples of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira, he thought “He who has defeated both my brothers must necessarily be a H Sarvagna, Omniscient, let me there-fore go and bowing down respectfully before the Omniscient Lord, let me be free from my sins. I will also get my doubt solved by him. With this idea in his mind, Väyubhūti camo to the Samavasara ņa of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra accompanied by his five hundred pupils bowed down respectfully before him and took his seat near-by.
Sramaņa Bhagavau Mabāvīra then made inquiries about his health and said "O Vāyubhūtil You have a doubt about the Body and the Soul. You think that the Body and the Soul is the same object. You say that the Soul is not distinct from the body as it is not grasped like a pot, by 3* Pratyaksha, Direct Knowledge and othea evidences, but that it is produced in the body like dubbles in water and that it perishes with the body. But this idea of yours is not true.
तज्जीवतच्छरीरे सन्दिग्धं वायुभूतिनामानम् । ऊचे विभुर्यथास्थं वेदार्थ किं न भावयसि ? ॥ १ ॥
1. Tajjiva tacch hariré sandigdham Vāyubhūti-uāmānam; Uché vibhu r-yathāstham Vódārtham kim na blāvayasi ?
