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previous lives. It actually visualised those lives and was thereby enlightened.
This incident inspired great joy and admiration in the people. They praised the nun's divine powers. The king of that region led away the elephant. The elephant observed alternate series of six fasts. It devoted the rest of its life to the practice of asceticism and after death was born as God in the eighth heaven. From that heaven it will be migrated to be born as a human being and therefrom it will attain emancipation as declared by the great monks.
The wise should avoid passionate cravings on realising their dreadful consequences of such nature as described above. They should earn religious merits and render life fruitful. Thus the great monks preached. Thus we do preach.
