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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
INTRODUCTION.
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Act.-Can not Kali frustrate the wishes of those aspirants ?
MANAGER.---Can that moon, which is daily wasting, obstruct the light or the heavenly luminaries during the wane ?*
(Behind the scene.) Who is it that reviling me, turns up to the moon?
Manage1.-- (Looking carefully around.) Behold, my good Sir, just while we are speaking, here comes he, a monster of wrath and a stranger to mercy, having his favourite companion Adharma by his side: we had better now retire.
Exit. Káli (Immorality) and Adharma (Vice) next enter the stage, and in a protracted conversation narrate the history of Chai. tanya from his birth to the time when he adopted the life of an ascetic, including an account of the miraculous manner in which he converted Jagáï and Mádhár, two of his most inveterate opponents, to his doctrine. In the third scene the followers of the Nadiá Saint publicly invest him with the rights of a divine tutor, and a very miscellaneous conversation then follows on his miracles and his precepts.
The second Act opens with a dialogue, between Bhaktí and Bairágya, on the errors and imperfections of the different In. dian systems of religion and on the excellence of faith as a means of salvation, in course of which the former points out how Chaitanya exerted his utmost to break through the thraldom of caste, how he admitted Mahomedans into his sect, how he metamorphosed himself into various shapes for the gratification of his followers, how he cured a leper by his touch, and afforded a variety of other proofs of his divine mission. Chaitanya next appears and displays his super-human power by manifesting himself in the mind of his friend Adwaita in the form of Krisliņa.
In the chird Act Maitrí and Premabhaktí describe the na
* This verse is a double entendre and might be translated as under, hence its applicability. “The source of evil daily decreases by them who are followers of Krishna. How can it frustrate those who have obtained the protection of Vishnu's feet?"
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