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The Antakrid Dasha is the best, the aforementioned statements should be repeated here, until one accepts the vows of renunciation after becoming a liberated soul. But O parents! This Nirgranth discourse is difficult for ordinary people, who are devoid of cleavages, lack stability in their cowardly minds, are detestable, desire worldly pleasures, and do not desire the happiness of the afterlife. It is not difficult for a man of fortitude and firm resolve to follow it. What is the difficulty in following it? Therefore, O parents! With your permission, I wish to accept the vows of renunciation in the presence of Arihant Arishtanemi.
Thereafter, Krishna Vasudeva came to Gajasukumar, having heard of his dispassion, and embraced him, seated him on his lap, and spoke to him in this way:
"O Devānupriya! You are my younger brother, therefore I say that do not accept the initiation of becoming a renunciate from the household at this time in the presence of Lord Arishtanemi. I will anoint you with the royal coronation in the city of Dwarka with great pomp and ceremony." Then Gajasukumar remained silent when Krishna Vasudeva spoke to him in this way. After remaining silent for some time, Gajasukumar spoke to his elder brother Krishna Vasudeva and his parents a second and third time in this way:
"O Devānupriya! In truth, the enjoyments and the body of a human being [are impure, impermanent, momentary, and repositories of excrement, urine, phlegm, vomit, bile, semen, and blood. They are filled with foul breath, bad urine, excrement, and pus. They are born from excrement, urine, phlegm, nasal mucus, vomit, bile, semen, and blood. This human body and these enjoyments are unstable, impermanent, and subject to decay, putrefaction, and destruction, and will inevitably be destroyed sooner or later. Therefore, O Devānupriya! I wish to accept the vows of renunciation (Shraman Diksha) in the presence of Arihant Arishtanemi, with your permission."
The Initiation of Gajasukumar
21-Then, Gajasukumar's parents, Krishna Vasudeva, and others, who were not persuaded, continued to persuade him in many ways, until he was convinced. Then, Gajasukumar, being dispassionate, spoke to them in this way: "I wish to go to the king's palace tomorrow."
Then, Gajasukumar, while being persuaded by Krishna Vasudeva and his parents, remained silent. Until [then, Gajasukumar's father, the head of the family, spoke to him, and having spoken, said: "Quickly, O Devānupriya! Let us arrange a great, magnificent, and grand royal coronation for Gajasukumar." Then, the head of the family continued to persuade him in this way. Then, Gajasukumar's parents seated him on a throne facing the east, as is done for a king, until they anointed him with the royal coronation with eight hundred golden pots filled with water, with great sound and great pomp.
Having anointed him with the royal coronation, they celebrated his victory with [1. This has already been mentioned in the previous sutra.]