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[Mahavir's Birth & birth celebrations
Before we tell you which of the Gods and Goddesses took part in the birth celebrations of Lord Mahavira, we want to make it clear that although we respect and welcome proudly the, divine, beautiful, lustrous and glorious birth and body of child Mahavira, our respect and welcome are due only to his human body and to the sacred deeds that were to be performed by that body in future. Had he appeared before us in his divine form and in his divine body, we, who are entangled in the net of worldly attachments and who are wandering ignorantly from the right path, could not even have recognised him, to say nothing of welcoming or respecting him. Therefore, we must accept it wlthout any hesitation that Lord Mahavira came before us in a sacred human body due to his Karmas; and that we, too, can approach him in our human body with our human Karmas; not only approach him, we can put our human nature and its short coming before him ảnd request him to pardon them. The day, we firmly decide to do so, we have learnt the lesson of following in the footsteps of Lord Mahavira.
The news of Lord Mahavira's birth reached the celestial beings, Bhuvana-Pati, Vyantara, : Jyotishi and others, in heaven. They tried to spread it among other gods; and soon there was a great bustle among them to catch the first opportunity for taking part in the birth-celebrations of Lord Mahavira. Preparations were made and the sky was full of aerial conveyances. This is quite natural that every body likes to welcome and respect the holy and the righteous. Some of the gods took upon themselves the duty of blowing fragrant air every-where and spreading softest carpets of flowers plucked from the blossoms of the trees for the guests to walk on. Some tried to reach Siddhartha's house under the pretext
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