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SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA He began actually believing that this dream was real. Suddenly, a burst of thunder and lightning occurred, accompanied by torrential rain. The beggar was rudely awakened. He looked at himself. There was his tattered shirt, his old water vessel and torn mattress.
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The dream that he thought was real was just-a dream. So also, the worldly pleasures we think we enjoy are merely illusory. "Mokshamala" is full of such parables with chapters on religious rituals samayik, kshama (forgiveness), vivek (discretion), and vairagya (detachment).
"Mokshamala", written at sixteen, was published a few years later.
By then, he started performing "ashtavadhanas" i.e. the storing up in memory of eight different tasks simultaneously, and reproducing them correctly from memory. He had witnessed Pandit Shankarlal performing "ashtavadhana", and the next day he repeated the feat. He progressed to twelve, sixteen and then fifty-two avadhanas. These are shown on the next page.
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