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the five kinds of carefulness, purified by the three controls, not subject to anger, conceit, deceit and greed, devoid of channels of karma, his mind unrestricted in substance, place, time, and nature, his gaze fixed on one gross object, absorbed in meditation, he can not be moved from meditation by gods, asuras, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, Nagas, men, nor even by the three worlds."
Hearing this speech of Sakra's, a god who was one of Sakra's Sāmānikas, terrifying from the frown that was made on the surface of his forehead, his lips quivering, his eyes protruding and red from anger, a soul not capable of emancipation, devoted to deep false belief, named Sangamaka, said: Majesty, if this mortal, a mere ascetic is described thus, power at will over true and false speech is the cause of that. This one can not be moved from meditation even by the gods.' Lord, how can this extraordinary idea be conceived in the heart or, if conceived, how can it be uttered? What is this mere mortal to gods of unequaled magnificence, of unlimited power, of fully gratified wishes, who raise Sumeru, which fills the sky with its peaks and the lower world with its roots, by the arm as easily as a clod of earth, for whom the ocean, whose power was apparent from the flooding of the earth with its mountain-ranges, makes only a mouthful, who support the great earth with many mountains with only one arm, as easily as an umbrella? I here will move him from meditation."
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Saying this, he struck the earth with his hand and rushed out of the assembly-hall. The Arhats do unbroken penance with the assistance of enemies. May he not know this." With this thought Śakra watched the malignant god. With a dense cloud about to fall with the rising of a swift wind, hard to look at because of his terrifying appearance, from whom the Apsarases fled in fear, with the planets piled up by a blow from his huge chest, evil, he went to the place where was the Supreme Lord.
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