Part 6: Padmaprabha’s life before initiation

Because his mother had a pregnancy-whim for a couch of lotuses while he was still in her womb and because of his lotus-color, Ms father named him Padmaprabha. Being cherished by nurses from heaven, playing with gods in the form of boys, the Master grew up gradually, and attained the second period of life.

Two hundred and fifty hows tall, broad-chested, the Lord looked like a pleasure-mountain made of rubies of Śrī. Though wishing to abandon saṃsāra, the Master married in order to gratify the people and from consideration for Ms father and mother. When seven and a half lacs of pūrvas since Ms birth had passed, the Master took the burden of the kingdom at Ms father’s importunity. The Lord of the World spent twenty-one and a half lacs of pūrvas and sixteen pūrvāṅgas, protecting the kingdom.