Risabha Deva

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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RISABHA DEVA
and spend the rest of the time in holy meditation. Even in the morning He would merely pass through towns and villages without uttering a word and without asking for fcod from any one, In this way He reached the city of Hastinapur where lived king Soma Prabha with his younger brother Sreyansa. The latter had seen during the preceding night, towards the early hours of the morning, several strange dreams In the morning, when he got up he found himself still thinking of them, and asked for their interpretation from his brother to whom he related them all. "They signify," said the court Pandit who happened to be present at the time and who heard them all, "they signify the arrival of great good luck to your royal house. Some great Soul should come to you this day."
Only a couple of hours after this the WORLD TEACHER entered Hastinapur, and proceeded towards the royal palace. Sreyansa saw Him coming from a distance, and ran out to do obeisance to Him, accompanied by his brother and others. The sight of the Lord agitnted him greatly; there was a rush of some powerful emotion; an internal commotion possessed him for the moment. The next instant Sreyansa knew himself. He recalled how Bajrajangha had given the gift of food to two holy saints in a forest one day, and how he was there, by the side of Bajrajangha! It was an old affair; several times since he had re-incarnated in different forms; still the memory came back with a rush, vivid and clear at first Svayam Prabha, then Srimati, and now Sreyansa! All these were but three phases, or complexions,
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