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son. She wandered everywhere in the city demanding from every one she came across whatever information about her son. Once, as he stood in the window, he saw his mother in the street below and quickly recognised her. He rushed down and fell at her feet. She asked him to renounce pleasures. He said he simply could not practise self-control but when she persisted he said he would begin by observing fasts. So he took to fasting observing pädapopagamana posture on a hot stone slab. His delicate frame almost melted. At first he could not stand the physical torture but later on he came not to mind it and this way he attained liberation.
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