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terms of separation. It is, then, a marriage of two statues made up of the elements. Today so many young men and women come together for selfish motives. The slightest hitch, and — you go your way and I go mine.
Compare to that the classical story of Queen Anjana and her husband, Pavananjay. Because of a misunderstanding for twenty-two years Pavananjay would not even look at his wife. But in Anjana there was infinite patience and tolerance and she vowed that if she could not get her husband's physical attention, she would stay chaste, for after all, that was only a matter of the body – the outer shell; but she was confident that she would direct all her efforts to the salvation of her husband's soul. After twenty-two years, when Pavananjay realised his foolish mistake, he was full of remorse and with tears he said, “I am evil, wicked, please forgive me!" "You are not evil, if you were, these tears would not flow from your eyes. They have cleansed you,” said Anjana, as if nothing had happened for twenty-two long years.
If your life is enriched by the possession of the trinity of these gems, your marriage becomes altogether different from that of the majority of human
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