Part 13: Sagara’s omniscience

Wandering with the Master, the great muni Sagara learned the twelve aṅgas as easily as the alphabet. Always free from negligence, he honored completely the five kinds of carefulness and the three controls, mothers of right conduct. He did not know at all any weariness arising from the trials because of joy produced by desire to hear (the scriptures) at the Master’s feet constantly. He was never proud at the thought, “I am the brother of the Cakrin of the Three Worlds and am Cakrin myself,” but on the contrary he showed reverence to the munis. Though he had taken initiation later, by penance and study the royal muni was superior even to mendicants of long standing. His brilliant omniscience arose from the destruction of the ghāti-karmas, like the light of the sun from the destruction of cloudy weather.