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Agnisharma will have to remain without food for the third month third month successively.. This was his pledge. Yet his inner pain. was telling him often to find out if any exception or alternative could be had, so that the monk may take food. But it was impossible to expect from such a monk as Agnisharma to take shelter under exceptions simply to satisfy his hunger. The will of Agnisharma was as firm as the Himalayas. When Gunsen was quite sure that Agnisharma would not turn back, he could speak only this much. with tears in his eyes, "Bhagwan! It is my bad luck that you are going back from my house second time. Now I have no courage even to beg pardon of you. Prabhu! If you oblige me once more I will not consider myself as unfortunate."
The pure and kind vision arrose in the mind of Agnisharma. He accepted the request of Gunsen with simple-heart.
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