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keep them with themselves and turn their minds from renuncitation which as parents, they had all along feared. They had painted to the children horrible pictures of the life of a recluse. They had even convinced the children that these religious minded men killed human beings and ate their flesh. As a result the two boys grew up with the conviction that they should never mix up, even come into contact, with any one of the cannibalistic tribes.
But they could not avoid the monks for long. Once they saw them coming along towards them and the boys ran in fear and climbed a banyan tree to hide themselves. The monks by sheer chance came for a rest under the same tree and as they sat there they began to eat whatever they had. The boys saw that their food was quite common and contained no flesh at all. They suddenly remembered their previous birth. They quickly came down the tree and bowed before the monks. They all went to their parents whom they conveyed the message of enlightenment. The parents in their own way went to the royal court and conveyed the same message. in this way the two cowherd boys, their priestly parents and the royal masters, the king and the queen, all received enlightenment and took to renunciation. In course of time, they attained the final liberation.
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