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JULY, 1977
Granting the Agnila-body as the fleeting garment For the storm-clouded moment.
Agnila said, "I am devoted to the Lord Nemi, My death eye is fixed on His soul purity." Down, down she plunged to her body death, O, rising... His worshipful name on her last breath. Truly, pure effort by one isolated person
To the cosmos had introduced a spiritual dimension. In karmic verdict for her faithfulness,
She was reborn Ambika, a goddess.
At once Somasarma, to his wife attached By impure motive, the death fall matched. By karmic due he was reborn a low semi-god In lion form, condemned to plod
As riding coach for his former wife Now in a chaste goddess life.
First Ambika aided her orphan sons,
Subhankara and Vibhankara, to evolve as saintly persons Till in time each took the vow of a Jaina Muni At the beneficient feet of the Lord Nemi.
Then Ambika, in reward for her past life merit, Became the Lord Nemi's female spirit.
Alone with the male spirit Gomedha, the faithful two Attended Him as His mystic retinue.
Again with the teaching Lord, nearby to Girnar The Lord gave permission to Prince Gajakumar To do night penance in a cemetery
In his search for self-mastery.
The father-in-law, Somila, in a spiteful plot, On the prince's head lighted a fire pot.
The prince bore the torture
Fixed in the meditation posture,
On the blissful quality of his real self he dwelt As at the feet of the Lord in vision he knelt
Till all karmic energy was shed
And soul from body was liberated.
Now the prince and Krsna shared Devaki mother And Krsna sought his youngest brother.
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