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tible I pray, do me a little more favour I beg to know if your Lordship had an occasion to come across any of the hundreds of monks and nuns of Parshwa tradition, since they are still extant'
'Gautam, a few monks who had reverted to the Vedic tradition of nomadic sadhus did come across me but none subscribing to the Parshwa tradition Gaushalak did see the monks of Acharya Nandisena of Parshwa tradition at Tambaya. Nandisena was such a one great sage, and a meditative genius It was night and he was lost in meditation at the cross-roads The son of the chief guard happened to see him. He took him to be a robber and committed him to death?
'How very sad, sire ?'
Well Gautami is slavery any-the-less reprehensible and for that matter animal sacrifice, untouchability, antifeminism and such other vices? Man is oppressed with numberless evils. These evils are only the manifestations of the inner ferment. The root cause is erroneous perspective Some religious leaders prescribe an eradication of patent evils while I advocate
eradication of patent evils as well as their latent causes. You may give your thought to it profoundly' So saying the Lord was lost in silence Gautam switched his mind over from the past to the future
1. 'Awashyakchurni' 1 pt 1
