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[69] ornaments. On either side beautiful maidens wave chaamars about Him seated inside the Palanquin, calm and immobile as an Idol.
Angels with wings bear the Palanquin to the Gnyath Khanda Gardens,
( The stage dims: the curtain goes up again )
MAHAVIR
Take back these trappings of crown and robe and ornament. Bareness now seeks bareness; void calls out to void ! No trappings of jewelry or raiment ever had any place in the Moment of Union : nakedness of earth cries out to nakedness of sky!
A GARDEN
MAHAVIR
The calendar calculates this body of me and tells the world I am now thirty years of age. But the soul has no calendar, no calculation, no age. Even to say that the soul is ageless involves a conception of age.
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