Jailer

Author(s): Abhayshekharsuri, Sujata P Kapadia
Publisher: Harshadray Private Limited

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his wife was of immoral character. He cut off all relations with his wife. The wife was extremely worried. She confided in her sister-in-law. The sister then clarified to her younger brother, “Your wife is very virtuous. The advice to her was only so that she would not entertain thoughts of any other man in her mind”. The younger brother was satisfied and everything went back to normal with his wife. The sister was pacified that her brothers and sisters-in-law loved her and valued her advice. The widowed sister had behaved in a sinful manner by wrongly accusing both her sisters-in-law. She had offered a lot of worship during her widowhood but she failed to atone for this sin.
Now just examine the way in which the sister was punished by Karmasatta. In her next birth, this widowed sister was born as the daughter of a merchant. Both the brothers were born as the sons of another merchant in another town. One of the brothers was married to the daughter of the former merchant (his sister in the previous birth). On the night of the marriage a Vyantar dev', who was passing by aerially, felt like playing a prank. This was of course, at the behest of Karmasatta. The bride was awaiting her husband's arrival in the bridal chamber. The Vyantar dev’ entered the room in the guise of her husband and started talking to her. The bride was absolutely unaware and mistook the Vyantar dev as her husband and started talking to him lovingly. Her own husband who was outside the room, heard her talking lovingly to another
Vyantar dev = a peripatetic celestial
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