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the sesamum plant grew. Gosala ka remarked about sesamum seeds, 'Bhagawan, whatever you had told me about the sesamum plant turned out to be wrong. Neither the plant has borne fruit nor have the seven souls in its flowers died and become seven seeds!. I narrated to him all that had happened and said, 'Gosala ka, to prove me wrong, you had uprooted the plant. - By accidental rain, however, it took root again and the seven souls have also taken the shape of seeds in its pod. What I had predicted is not even slightly wrong'. Gośāla ka did not believe me. He went to the plant and plucked the pod. It contained just seven seeds. Gosala ka thought: 'Just as living things in the vegetable domain die and are reborn there, so also can other beings be reborn after death in the same spheres'. Thus Gośala ka propunded his new doctrine of Parivritya Parihar (fated change of mortal forms). Gośāla ka's attention was diverted towards attainment of mystical powers. He, therefore, separated from me. After the prescribed penance of six months, he attained both the concise and the profound' Tejoleśyās.
"After a few days, the six Disacaras also joined him. Since then, he proclaims himself as Jina without being so, Kevali without being a Kevali, and Sarvajna without being such.
"This news spread round in Srāvasti. Everywhere people started commenting: 'Gośāla ka is not Jina. His talk of being Jina is senseless. Bhagavan Mahāvira says so'.
Gośāla ka also heard the comment from several persons, which made him very angry. Burning with wrath, he came from the penance ground to the pottery bazar of Halahalā and sat with members of his Ajiva ka Sangha in great rage."
Gośālaka and Ananda
At that time, Lord Mahavira's Sthavira (reclaimer of fallen Sadhus) disciple Ananda had gone into the city to get alms. He was simple and humble. He used to perform the Chattha penance regularly. Making rounds of the households of different strata of society he passed by the pottery mart of Hālāhala. Goś ala ka saw him and spoke to him thus:
| SR No. | 022804 |
| Book Title | Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nagaraj Muni |
| Publisher | Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers |
| Publication Year | 1986 |
| Total Pages | 804 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 19 MB |