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staining your character and despising you instead of realizing and respecting your purity and chastity ?"
"All this is the sport of my Karmas, you mad creature !"
"Very well, but it is difficult to understand why sometimes you get the cool shadow of felicity and why sometimes you are exposed to the hot and scorching rays of anguish. This is what I cannot understand".
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"Vasanta! There is nothing incomprehensible in this. Sometimes we do noble deeds and sometimes we commit sins. Do we not? Even there, the duration of good deeds is short while that of sinful deeds is long. The meaning of this is that in human life the duration of happiness is brief and that of sorrow is long. Dear friend! There is another point which you have forgotten totally. Only a little while ago the enlightened Gurudev revealed to us the events of our past Janma. He suggested only this truth by narrating that story. Is this not enough to convince you of it?" Anjana said this to clear the doubt in the mind of Vasanta Tilaka. Even this explanation did not satisfy her and she thought it good to be silent. After thinking for a while she again said:
"If we have to live here it is better we seek shelter in a cave." But even before this Manichul had made the place neat and tidy.
"Everything is all right but only one thing is lacking."
"What is it, dear friend ?"
"We do not have here an image of the Paramatma to worship him."
"That is true; but where can we get an image of the
Paramatma ?"
"If you find some clay I can make an image out of it."
"Let me try...." saying this Vasanta Tilaka went out of the valley. She reached the banks of the lake. When she walked
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