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if we keep Lord’s terrible difficulties in front of our eyes. You
can also ponder over the various vows and oaths accepted by
Him, how well he followed the 10 Shramana Dharmas and
how He eventually accelerated his spiritual progress. You can
then compare His virtues with yours and eventually strive to
reach His level. He became our idol in helping us to identify
and implement the real path of salvation. Isn’t this worth
considering?

The favours He has bestowed on us are so many that thinking
about them will take eons and still the thought process will
stay incomplete.

Thus tell me, could it ever happen that Sulsa did not have
anything about Lord Mahavira to contemplate upon? Sulsa
told her neighbours, “If I get free from the deep thoughts of
my Lord Mahavira, only then will I get time to observe the
outside world. But I do not have such free time.”

The neighbours left. Ambad also observed that the entire
city of Rajgrihi had come to worship him but there was no

sign of Sulsa! Now what could he do? He resumed his original
form and made up his mind. The spark that Lord Mahavira
had seen in Sulsa was valid. “Now, I should give up on testing
Sulsa and directly go and deliver Lord Mahavira’s message to
her. But how should I go? As Ambad (Sanyasi), she will not
greet me, let alone listening to my message.” Thus, Ambad
transformed himself into a Jain Shravaka and reached Sulsa’s

doorstep.

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