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Oh, I know! They always followed the Master. There is no one else in my family, except me, who does not follow the Master. My father, the protector of the three worlds ; my younger brothers, Bāhubali and others; my sisters Brāhmi and Sundari; my sons, Puņdarika, etc. ; my grandsons, Sreyārsa and others, destroyed all the karmaenemies and went today to the abode of the siddhas. I, devoted to life, live."
Seeing the Cakrin depressed by the fact that he was alive, because of his grief wishing to die, as it were, Pākaśāsana began to enlighten him: “O noble Lord of Bharata, our Master crossed and led others across the ocean of samsāra for so long a time. Other creatures belonging to samsāra will for a long time cross samsāra by means of the congregation founded by him, like a great river by a ford. For the Blessed One, after accomplishing his own purpose, devoted himself to helping other people accomplish their purpose, for a lac of pūrvas. When he has favored all the people, why then do you grieve for the Lord of the World who has attained that abode from which there is no return, O King ? That man should be grieved for when he dies, who after death wanders many times in the lacs of birth-nuclei, sole abodes of great pain. So, are you not ashamed grieving for the Lord like other people? It is fitting neither for the mourner nor the one mourned for. Any man who has heard even one of the Master's sermons on dharma is overcome neither by grief nor joy. How much less should you be! O King, this wailing of yours is as unnatural as trembling of the great ocean, as shaking of Mt. Meru, as springing up of the earth, as dullness of the thunderbolt, as tastelessness of nectar, as heat of the moon. Be resolute, O King. Remember that you are the son of the Lord, the sole resolute one of the three worlds."
Thus enlightened by Vrddhaśravas like an elder of his family, the King regained his natural resoluteness, like water coolness.
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