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only to your family, but if you hand him over to the Jina-shasan, he would immortalize your name for thousands of years. When he becomes a great Acharya, people would first ask, 'who was the great mother who gave birth to such a great person?' And about his father, I am sure he would also agree to this, if he could also visualize the bright future which I can see. After all Jina- shasan also has some influence."
Before the Acharya could speak further, the child intervened and said, "Mother, I will take Deeksha and become a great Acharya."
The Acharya told Pahini Devi, "See, this child wants to continue the chain of events from his previous birth. I hope you would help him in that. I am sure you would agree to my request."
Pahini Devi was overjoyed with the imagination of her child becoming an immortal great Acharya. Quickly she reached a decision and told Acharya, "Gurudev ! I am handing over my child Changdev to you. An excellent sculptor like you will definitely bring out the God from within this child. But his
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