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neck and diamond rings on his tapering fingers; the crown of diamonds that adorned his head was brilliant as the sun radiating its beams.
With a sweet smile on his vermilion lips and with a haughty lift of his head, he asked the pilgrims, "Well, now do you see beauty at its best?”.
To his amazement, the pilgrims shook their heads and replied with all humility, “No, My Lord, the brief moment of supreme beauty has had its day and is gone already! Your body is filled with a million germs that have already started their deadly work of consuming you! If you need any proof of this, you may consult the court physician, and he will bear out what we say!”
The king was shocked at these words. "Could my beautiful body be nothing more than the abode of deadly germs:" he thought in an agony of terror. “How foolish of me to have gloried in my physical beauty, neglecting to acquire spiritual beauty? I was vain of my face and figure; soon, too soon, they will have wasted to ugliness, and my soul that could have acquired everlasting beauty, remains so sadly neglected. Man glories in his physical beauty when he is heading for self-destruction. Henceforth, I will devote myself to beautifying the soul.”
Sanatraj was a man of his word. He had conquered kingdoms with courage and determination. Now he turned towards this spiritual conquest with the same
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