Night Mare is Over

Author(s): Gunratnasuri, Mokshratnavijay
Publisher: Adhyatma Shikshan Kendra

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life of Anjana Sundari are seen in the oldest Jain Version of the Ramayan 'Paum Chariyam' of Vimalsuri.
The curtain is pulled and the scene...
Everyman is what environment and heredity makes him. King Mahendra was no exception. He was a born warrior. A man who never despaired. But alas.... today he was close.. very close to it.
Scene from a little far, the Royal Garden was blooming in lonely, grand splendour, dominating Mahendra Nagar with its own beauty. It had a kind of absolute, elemental force, a mystical grandeur, and utter purity. From afar, the Royal garden was stupefyingly beautiful....! Beautiful were the blooming roses and more beautiful and lovely was shethe Princess Anjana, who was playing with them and their delicacy.
Only once or twice, did she throw her glance at her father, King Mahendra, only to see that that day he was in his unhappiest mood. Though she resumed her playing with radiant face, yet some thoughts engrossed her mind. Never did she see such weariness on her father's face. What made him so, she could not yet understand, she tried hard as she could....' Yes, How could she, a teenage girl imagine that it was she and she alone, the very cause of her father's distress.'
She was a boon to him..... a God-gifted child born after 100 boys as a response to the King's and Queen's prayers.
Till yesterday, His Highness regarded her as a child, but today, after seeing her blooming youth like a full blossomed flower, he thought....
Having such a divine beauty as his own daughter he was proud... very-very proud....yet...
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