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Only One Blunder
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“All right, I will bring it here”.
The mahamuni by means of his supernatural powers was enabling Anjana and Vasanta Tilaka to visualize the events of their past Janma. When they found that they were seeing the events of their past life both began to look at them with deep concentration.
Again the scene changed.
In accordance with the suggestion of Kanakodari Sulekha put on the dress and decorations of a respectable woman and began to visit Queen Lakshmiyati's temple regularly, every day. She too pretended to be deeply absorbed in the glorification of the Lord joining the others who had gathered there. She began to take a leading part in every devotional activity organised in the temple. She used to be immersed in the joy of hearing the songs of glorification and at all times she acted as if she was a noble Shravika. She began to take part in the worship of the lord at the three times every day and pretended to be full of devotion for the Paramatma. By means of this kind of pretentious behaviour she managed to earn the love and friendship of all the devotees that came to the temple.
Every day, she brought various glorious flowers and decorated the image of the Lord with them. She brought food, fruits and other offerings for the lord in large vessels. In the evenings, she came at the time of the Arti and sang songs of glorification for the lord. She spent most of the time every day at the temple pretending to be taking part in the various devotional activities. The result of all this was the people of the city began to praise Sulekha as much as they were praising Queen Lakshmivati. She made a deep impression even on the heart of Queen Lakshmivati and won her trust and confidence. Now, Queen Lakshmivati began to praise her heartily.
Sulekha began to feel that there could not be much delay in her attaining success in her sinful plan. She felt secretly happy. Once she said to Kanakodari with elation ... "The time has come for the success of our plan". One noon, she put on fine
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