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The Wheel of Joy and Sorrow
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The seven-storeyed mansion in which she lived looked deserted, desolate and ruined. Her agonized cries crashed against the walls and echoed throughout the chamber.
Dark clouds of despair and deep anguish, enveloped her mind. The tears streamed from her eyes incessantly. Distress and helplessness filled her heart.
Anjana felt that life without Pavananjay was dark and depressing. She felt that her life was enveloped by some dreadful darkness, like the night of the new moon-day when the moon does not shine. Her life became a scorching desert.
For some days past, Anjana had not even taken a bath. She had not combed her rich and luxuriant hair. She had not put on beautiful garments; nor had she put on any ornaments. Her eyes had grown red with incessant weeping. On account of anguish her white and radiant face had grown, gloomy, bleak and blighted. She lay on her cot like a dead body experiencing death, in life. She kept tossing on her bed, in distress. Seeing her dearest friend steeped in anguish, Vasanta Tilaka said, stroking her back compassionately :
Anjana! What is the use of thus endlessly grieving ?”
"I have lost everything that was mine, Vasanta ! The treasure of my life has been plundered !" Anjana wept sobbing like a helples child. She placed her head over her knees; and wept.
"Anjana ! My dearest friend ! Since you love the words of the Paramatma, it is not proper for you to give way to despair, in adversity. Those who are daunted by adversities and agitated by sorrows do not have any faith in the doctrines of sin and merit. They are weak and unwise; but you are not one such. Then, why do you weep? Regain your equanimity; summon up some courage; and face the situation boldly. What is the use of losing your heart thus ? Come on! Get up. It does not bring glory to you if you thus keep weeping”.
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