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CHAPTER EIGHT to complete silence. Some of the elders abandoned him adhering to false doctrine at that time and went to the Master; some remained there. Because of delusion which is easily acquired by women and because of former affection Priya-darśanā and her followers supported Jamāli's faction. Jamāli recovered in course of time and, daily immersing himself and others in false doctrine, laughing at the Jinendra's teaching, saying, “I am omniscient,” full of arrogance, he began to wander with his followers.
One day he went to a grove named Pūrņabhadra near Campā where Sri Vira had stopped and, unrestrained in pride, said to him:
“ Blessed One, many disciples of yours have died as ordinary ascetics without omniscience developed. I indeed am not such a one. My imperishable perfect knowledge and perfect perception having developed, I, all-knowing, allperceiving, am an Arhat here on earth.”
Gautama said: “ Jamāli, if you are omniscient, explain this: Are the universe and soul permanent or transitory?” Confused, Jamāli was unable to answer him and stood distracted, with his mouth open like a young crow. Then the Blessed Vira said:
“Jamāli, know that in reality this universe is permanent and transitory and soul is like the universe. The universe is permanent from its composition of substance; it is transitory with reference to the continual and destructive modifications. Soul is permanent with reference to its composition of substance, it is transitory from its conformity to different modifications such as man, god, et cetera."
Though the Lord explained in this way, Jamāli, his heart agitated by wrong belief, left the samavasaraṇa with his followers. Then Jamāli was expelled by the congregation because of disrespect (to Vira), fourteen years after the manifestation of the Master's omniscience. He wandered over the earth independently, thinking himself omniscient, explaining the meaning of his doctrine everywhere. The
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