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RIŞABHA DEVA
Raja's capital; a great rising hum of voices was heard ; the sky itself became darkened with myriads of ethereal forms! It was the deva hosts that were coming to celebrate the Great Event. They had come to know of the Descent into Queen Maru Devi's Womb of the Coming WORLD TEACHER, and had turned out, in haste, to do reverence to the Mother of God !
There were great celebrations in Ajudhya that day. The splendour was such as the residents had never even dreamt of. On the Royal Throne of Gems in the great Hall of Audience were installed the Parents of the Lord, and were worshipped, in all becoming ways, with full devotion. The mortal world had long hankered after Immortality, and their enthusiasm was unbounded at the prospect of the speedy arrival of Him who was going to show them the way to Immortality! What wonder then that devas came down to join men in the celebration of the Great Event? They, too, are mortals, and feel the approach of death even more poignantly than ourselves, because of their having so much more to lose.
Today we wonder why the devas do not come down to see us on the earth. But whom should they come down to see here today? Who is superior to them in knowledge or power or greatness on the earth? Should they come down to smell
