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Oh! All my efforts to pacify my mind have failed. It is better to commit suicide.
One day the ascetic thought
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It is better to die by taking poison than to be alive after breaking
VOWS.
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He took a sharp sword and placed it on his neck.
What is this? I fail to move the sword?? DUC
The ascetic went to a cremation ground. He saw a burning funeral pyre. To commit suicide he jumped into the fire.
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The deity had made the sword immobile.
(Surprising! The poison has turned ineffective like a pinch of sand.
He consumed poison
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Yes! Now I am sure to. die.
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