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invited the sage for dinner also. The service rendered to him always gives good fruit. So I was entrusted with the work of serving meals to him.
I also took it as mygreat fortune. I prepared the meals myself and I placed the golden dish full of numerous 'menu' in front of him. I began to fan so that he may not feel heat. I was also serving more and more and made him eat.
But I noticed that the ascetic gazed at me often. It seemed he had more interest in me than in dinner.
I was alone in the kitchen. He was infatuated with me. So much so that he expressed her unworthy wish before me. I was afraid to hear such an indecent demand. In order to bring him back to the moral way I said:
"Yogiraj Such an immoral demand does not befit a recluse and great
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