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her love. Butas long as I am alive, I will never allow him to perpetrate such a heinous crime.” She thought that Chandana-bala was the root-cause of all future miseries, and, therefore, she wanted to put her out of her way.
Mula got such an opportunity one day. Knowing that bai ker would not come home till evening, she called for a barber. She quite believed in the proverb; “The beautiful lock of hair of a youthful maid is the fetter for the feet imagination and is a noose for the bird of wisdom." She, therefore, asked the barber to shave her head, and after putting fetters on her hands and feet, and imprisoning her in a solitary room of her house, she went to her father's Louse. But Chandana bala, who had already borne so many calamities courageously, did not feel sorry at this treatment meted out to her. A voice was coming from her heart, "Why should I be troubled at all by the considerations of joys or sorrows. When my fate is such, let come what comes."
* We have already said that Chandana-bala had come here for the sake of attaining Moksha (libration) by destroying her dense Ghatiya Karmas in this very life. She, therefore, hastened to practise the Japa ( counting the beads ) by repeating the Navakara-Mantra and thus utilised the time placed at her disposal. High souls never leave their work which they have once begun, even when they are faced with greatest difficulties; but ordinary people, when faced with difficulties spoil this life as well as the next.
After finishing his business, Dhanavaha returned home; but he did not see Chandana-bala there. When he enquired from the maid-servants about her, he was told that she must have been somewhere there. The banker thought
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