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________________ 8 Vol. II/No. 4. Eternal Wisdom welcome arrival of Spring and this cool breeze which is now laden with the fragrance of flowers is blowing ever so gently. And the creepers who emulate the limbs of dancers have adorned themselves with new flowers, and the mango trees are looking beautiful being full of blossoms......so O Lord, let us ride out and enjoy sporting with our horses." The king was pleased to hear this, and so both the and his chief minister mounted themselves on the best of their horses and went out of the city for a ride; and soon they came near the garden where Shri Keshi Ganadhara was giving his discourses. The king dismounted from his horse, and was enjoying the sight of the trees, the creepers, the music of the birds and the gurgling sound of clear crystal streams while standing under the shade of a large tree -- when the sweet sound of the discourse of the Ganadhara fell upon his ears. He asked: "My chiefminister, whose is this beautiful sound ?" The chief minister replied: "O King, the sound is coming from this direction - so let us go forward and we shall soon know." To this the king agreed, and no sooner they had walked a little in that direction, that they saw the Dharmacharya giving his discourse. The king was immediately filled with a kind of disgust and said: "This Acharya seems to be giving a talk on Dharma to our people: I do not like it at all because it is (as Karl Marx has said ) a kind of "opium to the masses" (i.e. it deludes them ). Hence see to it that this Acharya is sent away, so that my people are not polluted by wrong notions." Now it is said : आज्ञाभङ्गो नरेन्द्राणां, गुरूणां मानखण्डना। वृत्तिच्छेदो द्विजातीनामTag geld lia Agnyi-bhango Narendranam, Gurunini Mana khandana; Wruttichchhedo DwijatinamaShastra-wadha Uchyate.
| SR No. | 269294 |
| Book Title | King Pradeshi |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
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| Total Pages | 19 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Article |
| File Size | 1 MB |