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the king, in his desperate disposition, could not bear. He asked the queens to stop the noise. The queens, in turn, retained only one bangle each, as a mark of their fortunate wedded status, and removed the rest. The noise stopped forthwith. How could a lone bangle tinkle?
Nami's Detachment
When the king noticed that the sandal was still being ground but without the attendant noise, he inquired and was told about the queens having retained a bangle each and removing the rest. This incident proved to be a turning point in his life. He thought that crowd is the cause of noise, struggle, pain and misery and that loneness is the cause of relief, peace and tranquility. Where there is the crowd of physicality, senses, mind, wealth, family and fraternity, there can only be pain and misery; there cannot be any solace. Where there exists only the loneness of spirituality, there cannot be any pain, only spiritual solace.
Thinking like this his heart was filled with pious detachment from the mundane and his inclination became spiritual. He declared his intention to become a monk, left everything as it was and went out of the capital to take the monastic vows.
Nami was a highly benevolent and popular king. He was the apple of his subjects' eyes. When the word went round that the king had abjured the throne to become a monk, there was utter confusion in the capital. Everyone started wailing as if the whole capital was on fire. All over the capital there was pandemonium let loose.
Sakra : The Heavenly King's Sojourn To Mithilā –
The news of king Nami's detachment and abjuration reached the heavens as well and hearing it Sakra, the king of heavenly gods, thought of testing the steadfastness of the king's detached
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