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| First Life: | | ||
| X: Cannibal man who wins the woman | |||
| Y: Cannibal woman | |||
| Z: Jealous cannibal man who is killed | |||
| Scenario: | Cannibals are eating a corpse around a fire in the jungle. One man (X) |
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catches the eye of a young woman (Y). They smile at one another and |
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throws her a tasty bit of human flesh. She eats. Another man (Z) is jealous and a fight ensues between the two men. X wins and kills Z. |
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| Z: (The murdered cannibal becomes) The cruel king | |||
| X: (The lover of the cannibal woman becomes) A foreigner | |||
| Y: (The cannibal woman becomes) The cruel king's wife who pities X and asks her husband to spare him. | |||
| Scenario: | A great and cruel king (Z) is reigning in Turkey; he kills all foreigners who fall into his hands. X, a Persian, is captured by the king and is tortured in every way: he is bound to a tree and lashed; long pins are thrust down his finger nails; he is hanged up side down while the soles of his feet are lashed, etc. The king's wife, Y, pities the Persian and asks her husband to forgive X for her sake. Z loves his wife greatly and forgives X, who then becomes a court favorite. Later Queen Y falls in love with the foreigner. The king discovers this and kills them both. |
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| Third Life: | | ||
| Y: (The queen killed by her husband becomes) An honest merchant in China | |||
| Z: (The cruel king becomes) The merchant's son, a profligate | |||
| X: (The foreigner & queen's lover becomes) The merchant’s wife who loves her son. | |||
| Scenario: | Y, a merchant in China and his wife, X, have three daughters and one son. They are millionaires and live lavishly. The merchant is very honest. His son Z is a corrupt rogue, interested only in drink |
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| Fourth Life | |||
| X: (The Chinese merchant's wife becomes) A reigning prince in India. | |||
| Y: (The Chinese merchant becomes) The princes wife | |||
| Z: (The rakish son becomes) The prince's spiritually minded slave | |||
| Scenario: | X is now a reigning prince in India, with Y as his wife. Z is his slave who is very spiritually minded and who daily goes to sit at the feet of a great Yogi who sits under a tree in Benares. The prince and princess love each other dearly. One day, the slave loses his wife to death, but remains calm throughout it all. The prince wonders and asks him, "How can you be serene now?" Z replies, "My Master has made me understand the secret of life and death." When he hears this, X longs to see the master, and the slave takes him. On seeing the master, the prince is deeply impressed and says, "O Master, I surrender myself to you and will obey you implicitly." The master replies, "Leave all and come to me." Prince X renounces his kingdom and everything in it, dons the yellow robe, and goes with his wife Y to the master's retreat to await his order. The master orders X to beg from his own subjects, and the prince obeys. Next, the master orders X to wander through the jungle for one year. X and Y go together; they live on fruits and nuts and continually meditate on the master. One day, a tiger approaches them, but X merely looks at him and utters the Master's name. Immediately the tiger is transformed into the Master who blesses them and disappears. After the blessing, the prince enters a trance and passes through the following cosmic planes unto the fifth: |
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The prince in the first plane finds his gross body disconnected and set apart, through his subtle body (which is exactly like the gross body in every detail, except that it is smoke-like, vapory and transparent) gets the subtle experience. Into his subtle ears are poured forth steams of sweet melodious, enchanting, thrilling and exquisite sound rhythms and beautiful tunes, the like which he never had dreamt of; his subtle nose smells such a sweet, refreshing scent that he feels rejuvenated completely. His subtle eyes see different luminous ultra colors and innumerable small circles of steady light, with his Master's figure looming large in the circles. He now finds his gross body attached to him and so comes to the gross consciousness. But the tremendous impressions of the subtle experiences had such an effect on him as to leave him in a dazed condition.
In the second plane the prince, as in the first plane, sees his gross body lying aloof, and gets more subtle experiences through his subtle body. He sees the
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