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the well. You are doing similar thing."
Agnisharma disappointing him, replied :
“Honourable Teacher ! My decision and my will always remain unchanged. I have decided to die hungry on this ‘Kusa' grass. I will never excuse him. Revenge - is my only goal. That is my only 'siddhi' or realisation.”1
1. The mental condition of Agnisharma had became just like that of Arjuna in ‘Jaydratha . Vadh' written by Maithileesharan Gupta. The sun was on the point of setting. Arjuna Could not fulfill his pledge of killing Jaydath before sun-set. So he tells while embarking on. the Pyre :
'If I have accumulted the stock of merits by now, my only wish is that I may be born again to take revenge.'
But there was one difference. Arjuna was a Kshatriya at war. He was in the Battlefield. Whereas Agnisharma was an ascetic and a Sadhak. His aim ought to have been quite different.
