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people bowed before him respectfully praying to him for their safety from the worldy affliction. The Lord, shattering all the worldy snares, discarding all the royal paraphernalia, and observing self-restraint, got ready in his rising youth to experience selfe-realization, and to liberate himself and the whole world. The lord was all radiance. He was extremely handsome and bright. On seeing such a sacrificing lofty soul all the people present there spoke thus: “ O Lord, you are the only true saint in the world; you are the mine of all mercy and kindness; You are the saviour of the weak and the miserable. The power, which enables the saints to observe the hardest austerities after relinquishing the princely joys, emanates from you. May the world by blessed at your hands” THE SCOPE OF WORK, THE RIGHTS AND
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF
THE INITIATED LORD.
O1 Readers! Lord Mahavira is no more an ordinary ruler. The entire universe is now under his spiritual sway. In his earthly kingdom he could have some enemies, but here even his enemies are eager to make friends with him. There were different kinds of punishments in his earthly kingdom and hatred towards the wicked, but in his spiritual kingdom even the worse offenders are to be reformed through amnesty. The sin is to be despised, but the sinners are to be embraced. On entering the bounds of his spiritual kingdom all the living beings of the world became his kith and kin. Formerly our Lord used to reside in a particular apartment of his palace, now all the palaces of the world are eager to kiss his feet. Formerly as a prince, he was the måster of a limited quantity of worldly wealth; but now self-realization
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