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in the Jaina prophetic sight of self-continuity ... Dear Cow! Know ye, life is short. At best, 'tis thorns of discomfort, at worst, 'tis weeping for the little ones beyond your safekeeping."
Cow : “Alas, a mother's sorrow is too much to pass.”
Lord : "Come beyond sorrow, to where your babes live tomorrow.”
Cow (brightly): “Do the tears of my heart lie ? Do Ye declare that my soft-eared babes do not die ?"
Lord : "To die, is to live again. As milky sunrise, 'tis as certain."
Cow (dull again) : "Sunrise, sunset, 'tis a single misery that the heart cannot forget."
Lord : “All babes are reborn, be comforted.”
Cow : "Better they be reborn dead.”
Lord (with soothing emphasis) : “Reborn milk-white in bodies the mother-heart to delight. Ye Selfless One, yield your devotion to the all-sharing Jaina religion. Therein your babes, with all living things. may shelter in the rightful teachings that all dying without private fault bring harsh rebirths nearer to halt. Ye Cow ! Do not ye mourn. Ye Cow! By cloudless waters are your babes reborn."
Cow (echoing): “...Cloudless waters, O hold me to that glossy vision when my heart falters."
Lord : "May this truth of the Jaina religion move ye cow towards self-realization, for ye are your own everliving soul in the eternity of the Jaina reality."
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