Passage 9

In English

However, for it is always childhood or youth. This was beyond all human comprehension. He is immortal, and he is always full of peace, and in this way he represents eternal beauty. Although he used to be dark in complexion, his appearance was very attractive. The divinity that was present in him was responsible for this. This is not so in all human beings. It is a distinctive divine quality. The realised that they can find true beauty in this aspect only, and so they undertook to perform this sacred . They wanted to get him as their or husband. By passage of time, men by their way and nature, have forgotten the true meanings of words and accepted false meanings. We generally think that the word husband (or ) means one in the position of a husband to a wife. But, in actual fact a husband in this context means one who takes care of the person. Their feeling was that alone can bear the burden of taking care of all of them, and hence they desired him as their husband. The sixteen thousand and one hundred and eight treated in this manner.