Part 6: Suvidhi’s initiation

The Master desired the vow and the Lokāntika-gods, like flatterers, urged the Lord for its sake. Devoid of desire, the Lord of the World, like a wishing-gem of beggars, gave gifts for a year according to desire. At the end of his giving the ceremony of the Supreme Lord’s initiation was made properly by the gods, just as at the time of his birth. Then the Lord got into the palanquin Sūraprabhā and, surrounded by gods, asuras, and men, went to Sahasrāmravaṇa. In the evening on the sixth day of the black half of Mārga (the moon being) in Mūla, together with a thousand kings the Lord became a mendicant accompanied by a two days’ fast.

On the next day the Supreme Lord broke his fast with rice-pudding in the house of King Puṣpa in the city Śvetapura. The gods made the five things, the rain of treasure, etc., and King Puṣpa made a jeweled platform on the place of the Master’s feet. With an extraordinary body, free from affection, free from worldly interest, enduring trials, the Lord of the World wandered for four months as an (unenlightened) ascetic.