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Jambu Swāmi was sixteen years old at the time of his Diksā. He was an ordinary Sadhu for twenty years, and a Kevali for forty-four years Jambū Swāmi, having appointed Prabhava Swami as the chief Pontiff, acquired Final Liberation when he was eighty years old.
The poet says.
जम्बूसमस्तलारक्षो, न भूतो न मविष्यति । शिवाध्ववाहकान् साधून्, चौरानपि चकार यः ॥ १ ॥
1. Jambu samastalarakso, na bbūto na bhavisyati; Śivadhvavahakan sadhun, caurānapi cakāra yan.
i. There did not exist, and will not exist a watchman like Jambu who made even robbers, as ascetics walking along the path of faa Siva, Eternal welfare.
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1. Samyaktvaśılatumbabhyām bhavabdhistiryate sukham; Te dadhano mum-i-Jambu, stri nadisu katham brudet?
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1. The ocean of worldly existence is happily crossed by long gourds in the form of right belief and chastity. How can Jambu Muni bearing these (means be drowned in rivers in the form of females.
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लोकोत्तरं हि सौभाग्यं, जम्बूस्वामिमहामुनेः ।
अद्यापि यं पतिं प्राप्य, शिवश्रीर्नान्यमिच्छति ॥ १ ॥
I Lokottaram hi saubhāgyam Jambū Swāmi mahāmunch; Adya'pi yam patim prãpya, Sıvaśri-r-nānyamicchati.
1. The good fortune of the great sage Jambu Swāmi is really extraordinary (As) the prosperity of Final happiness, does not desire any one else even till now, after having acquired him as (her) husband.
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