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mounted on the kşapakaśreņi, all had kevala manifested. After entirely suppressing activity of mind, speech, and body, they reached the final abode instantly like the Master. From the Master's nirvāņakalyāņa, there was happiness, purifying pain, for a moment even for the nārakas who had never experienced a particle of comfort.
Bharata's grief (494-521) Immediately the Cakravartin, overcome by great grief, fell fainting on the ground, like a mountain struck by a thunderbolt. At that time even though great sorrow had come, no one knew how to cry—the means of relieving grief. To make known the way to relieve the Cakrin's grief, Sakra himself cried with great sobs. After Sankrandana, the gods cried. For the conduct is the same of people who have the same grief. Hearing their crying, the Cakrin regained consciousness and cried loud enough to split the universe, as it were. The great knot of the King's grief burst by that crying like a dike by the very great speed of a large river. Then, because of the repeated crying of gods, demons, and mortals, the emotion of compassion existed in the three worlds as if they were under one rule. Since that time, in this world producing sorrow for people, the arrow of sorrow has been removed by the method of crying
Abandoning his inherent firmness, the Lord of Bharata spoke with grief, causing pain even to animals : “Oh, Father! Oh, brother of the world! Oh, ocean with water of compassion! Why have you abandoned us, ignorant, here in the forest of existence? How shall we live here in existence without you, shining with clear kevalajñāna, just as in darkness without a lamp ? Why this silence of yours, like that of a chadmastha, O Supreme Lord ? Deliver a sermon. Why do you not favor the people ? But, surely you have gone to the abode of the siddhas since you do not speak, O Blessed One. Why do not my brothers, too, speak to me grieving ?
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