Akumali's body lay peacefully in a golden coffin. His followers had washed his body and dressed him in a moon-white robe. He looked as though he were asleep, lying there.
People around him wept bitterly, and his disciples were crying so hard they could barely breathe!
Akumali was not very old, but the wisdom and spirit he had left behind surpassed those of many people.
Sage Teacher was not a flattering title at all, but a description of the truth!
Grief spread rapidly.
In Nagaril, which was like hell, people truly needed some kind of spiritual pillar. "We should take revenge!" Akumali's youngest disciple wiped away his tears.
He looked at the others and spoke the words that changed most of their expressions.
Everyone knew that Akumali's teachings called for achieving one's goals without violence. Clearly, revenge was a form of violence.
He had never advocated revenge or even discussed it, because revenge was wrong.
Revenge only led to an endless cycle of suffering. You might complete your revenge, but the children, family, and friends of the person you killed would then fall into suffering.
Some of them might rise up to take revenge as well, turning you and the people around you into victims!
This cycle of revenge would cause hatred and suffering to continue forever. Revenge only brought destruction, just like violence.
Yet when the young disciple spoke of "revenge," no one voiced any opposition.
Everyone was thinking about revenge. The flames of hatred and anger burned away their reason. In the end, Akumali's First Disciple shook his head. "If Sage Teacher were still alive, he would definitely oppose my taking revenge for him."
The junior disciple merely looked at him. "He's already dead. If we don't avenge him, our enemies will only laugh at us."
"Revenge is