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APRIL, 1982
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Lord : "May this truth of the Jaina religion move ye lamb towards self-realization, for ye are your very own soul in the eternity of the Jaina reality.”
Said the Lord : “Crown of tender horns, Ye Goat, alas, for ye tomorrow mourns-"
Said the Goat (brashly): “Lord ! Mid sturdy men, are ye armoured. Thick of neck, outspread of shoulder, what thorn-gates your head could plunder.”
Lord (mildly) : “Know ye why outrage makes red your youthful eye ?”'
Goat : “My boy playmate winked at the leg-hook at the gate Little he cared that jolly hours we had shared, and in my turn, I swore fury to all deceivers like the fury of our fighting fathers."
Lord : “Of the fathers, what last did ye see ?"
Goat : "Dragged off were they, in a dust of glory."
Lord (apart) : "How to convince this hotblooded scion that a warrior's strength is a deception ? His eye must open wide to the Jaina view that soul, now body, be glorified ... Dear Goat! Recognize this hardy body that ye idolize, with its 1008 auspicious marks crumbles too, to death, a paradox till ye behold all living beings adrift on the river of time, fatefully swift."
Goat : “I fight till I die !"
Lord : "Foolhard outcry."
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