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spoke twice and thrice to his elder brother Krsna Vasudeva and parentsO beloveds as gods ! Really amusements and rejoicings of man and his body are impure, perishable and momentary. This body is filled with stool, urine, phlegm, vomit, semen, blood etc. the dirty things. This human body and the sensual pleasures related to it are unstable, with an end, and being perishable,, these are to be exhausted either now or later. Therefore O beloveds as gods ! I wish that permitted by you, I shall accept consecration (śramanahood) before Bhagawāna Aristanemi. When Krsna Vasudeva and his parents could not become capable of moulding Gaja Sukumāla towards worldly enjoyments even by loving and agreeable expressions, then being disappointed unwillingly Krsna Vāsudeva and his parents spoke thus unto him“O son ! If it is so, then we want to visualise you as a king (adorned with coronation) only for one day. So you accept kingship at least for a single day. At such insistence of parents and elder brother Gaja Sukumāla remained silent. Assuming silence as acceptance with a great ceremony he was coronated by 108 pitchers of gold and silver etc. After enthronement of Gaja Sukumāla parents askedson ! Now what do you want ? Tell, what is your wish ? Gaja Sukumāla answered, I want to be consecrated. Then according to the wish of Gaja Sukumāla all the paraphernalia was provided. Sitting in the palanquin which is carried by one thousand persons Gaja Sukumāla reached the religious assembly of Bhagawāna Aristanemi in great procession. Parents gave their son as pupil to Bhagawāna. Gaja Sukumnāla put off all ornaments himself, tonsured his head by five fists and then requested
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