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her that 'the king hes completede the girst half of his life and hasentered in the second half.'
She made fun of the King over this issue and jested that "the old age has just now sent one spy, but with the passage of time the head will be surrounded by a network of these Thieves in the form of grey hairs."
The King thought the queen had well cautioned him. He began to think over the matter. Youth droops towards the matured age. In old age, The physical strength also decreases. For a person who intends to do intense religions sadhana' must have physi cal stamina also along with the soul-force.
He decided there and there to renounce the pleasures of the palace. The queen of Course was shocked to some extent as the pain of separation was unbearable for her, but she was Wise and
