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And then the babe who was a golden boy whispered to his mother, the queen : "Mother! without seeing me you love me so dearly! What would you do, then, if, after I came into your world and grew up and then left you; father and brother and sister and kingdom, renouncing the world which you all love ? No! I shall not renounce the world until that moment comes when I can say to myself: "I am free to renounce it after I have fulfilled my duty towards you who will soon be bringing me into what men call the world."
The Golden Child was born...
The Golden Master Mahavir had come to reveal Himself to the world of ti.ne and space, in order to spread His message of peace.
There was rejoicing everywhere
Once again the king ordered that his chariot go fetch the astrologer, who arrived once again with his red-covered-book of starry arithmetic.
"Pray, astrologer ! will you tell us what were the fourteen dreams our queen Mother dreamed when the goldon babe came into her body nine. months ago"
And the queen recounted all her fourteen dreams :
(1) Lion : Golden Power. (2) Elephant : Golden Dignity. (3) Bull : Golden capacity to draw the Chariot
of Religion. (4) Lakshmi : Golden Goddess who will spread
prosperity over the world,
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