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would have recognized in you the pioneer of fearlessness, devotee of truth and the sole defender of forbearance, love and non-violence ? How could this cruel world realize the true significance of your leadership ? Non-violence has always been the hand-maid of heroes like you, otherwise in the hands of the cowards and the cruel people non-violence puts on the dress of cowardice and tyranny. O Lord, May the cowards also turn into bold and truth-loving persons after reading an account of your life.
Here, the Lord was being harassed by the cowherds in such a terrible manner that the god Indra thought within himself, “ The Lord has taken initiation; from today the very course of his life is altered; no one knows where he will be and what he will be doing." As soon as this thought entered his mind he found out the Lord's place with the help of his clairvayant knowledge. Then he learnt about the misfortunes that befell the Lord. He was very sorry to learn all that, and he immediately traversed all the way from the heaven to see the Lord. He reached the Lord as fast as he could. On reaching there he saw the devilish treatment that was being meted out to the Lord. He at once forbade the cowherds and rebuked them for their cruel treatment and sent them away from there. After that the Lord's meditation was over and Indra bowed down to him, and speake very politely with folded hands, “ O Lord, only a short time has elapsed since your initiation, and this is the condition of your body. Lord's body and such terrible cruelity of the humble-bees! Such impudence on the part of the churlish cowherds: O Lord, not one, nor two, nay twelve years you have to pass in such troubles. If such conditions prevail in future also, how shall
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