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CU. XII. YAUAVA BECOMKS VAISQNAVA. 73
sinceie exliorlations of his own mother to boot, had further
contributed to dispose his heart,
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all
'there he was converted, but,
Mother " he said, " as a monk of tie advaita-persuasion, I had
divested myself of the tuft and lio)y thread (royrao^a-fffa) ; to
wear them again, a penance has to bo performed by me ; and that
is laid down to be a journey round the world .
I am old and unfit
for such a task. Indeed I know not how to go." Yadava was
hari-owed by these thoughts, day after day. But one night
he had a dream. The Lord Varada appeared and said:
There is no need to go round the world, Yadava ! That is done
by going round our Ilamjinuja Do it then and bear the insignia
of the New Faith which he may present to you."
YMava woke
but had yet no faith in the dream. So he betook himself to Kanchi-purna,
and begged of him to consult Lord Varada—Purna
being a favourite votary of Him—as to some matters agitating
his mind. That same night, Kanchi-Purna submitted to Lord
Varada, Yadava's petition. "I know it all," said Lord Varada.
" His mother had already persuaded him to become a thx*eestaffed
Sanya.sin, but a doubt as to how it was possible to amend
the past by hhu-pradaksMna, preyed upon his mind and I have
by a dream quieted him by suggesting that instead, he need
but go round KamElnuja. Being a dream as it was, he lacks
faith and refei-s it to thee again." The following morning,
Purna delivered this message to YMava, who was now satisfied.
Straightway he went to R&m£inuja, and asking his forgiveness
for all the past, begged to
be ordained as a monk and admitted
to the New Faith. "But propitiation before conversion is
demanded by our Laws, and that in this case is circumambulating
the world once," said R^mEbnuja. " Enough to go round
thee, sire, so commandeth Lord Vai-ada," explained Yadava
penitently, and putting the same in execution without waiting
for a reply, stood before Rsimanuja with folded hands. KureSa
and Dasarathi, the new disciples, watched these events in infinite
wonderment and exclaimed :— " 7/ some reach God by love,
others reach Him by hate as well ? "^ 'May he join our holy
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