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Once the revered Mahavira came there and a merchant Sudarsana wanted to pay his homage to him. Therefore, he stood in sāgāra-posture on the way to the garden where Mahāvira was staying. Arjuna saw Sudarsana but could not even as much as touch him. He moved around him, stared hard at him and yet it would not affect Sudarsna at all. The Yaksa departed from his body and the gardener's strength failed him completely and he collapsed.
Arjuna managed to get up on his feet and asked Sudarsana . who he was and what he was doing on the road in that strange posture and where he wanted to go. When he learnt from him that he was going to worship Mahavira, Arjuna also accompanied him and after Mahavira's sermon was over, he renounced worldly life. As an ascetic he went around begging for food but people in Räjagrha had already branded him as a killer of his kin and called him all sorts of names when he came for alms but he took all that in his stride until the final moment of enlightenment came.
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