Night Mare is Over

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

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Yes... he was distressed now by the very presence of his beloved daughter. The only thought that made him disturbed was... 'Where shall I find a suitable match for her ?' His face wrinkled and forehead sweated.
Later we find her married to a noble prince with great pomp and show... And now starts the tragedy of her life... With hairs dishevelled, cheeks bathed with torrents of tears, a maiden is before us. Who would ever have imagined her as one day she was the most beautiful and charming Princess? Even to the longest night where dawn never comes, there comes the dawn; at last. And so it comes to Princess Anjana and her companion Vasanttilka, as grey as bitter, as hopeless as the night had been long. But it came.
And thence the birth of the book "The Nightmare is Over...' The book with the readers peep in her long last struggle with the Karma's by good or bad deeds. due to w one suffers or prospers in life... "Whenever one, who ha realised the soul, even partially, thinks of true nature, becomes conscious of the fact that one's present condition is like that of a traveller, one will not be able to remain permanently in this place. Everyman has come from some place and will pass on to another. Self is eternal but his present condition is not so.' Those who do not have such life - consciousness, cannot have anything to do with the culture with which we are concerned. These people may perchance talk of it. But this does not benefit them. We believe that we are soul, not body. This so called body is, in fact a bondage to the soul. Soul carries the shackles of the body since its existence. Only that body changes but the soul remains the same. The real fetter to the soul is that of the subtle body which is called the "Karman Body". The contact of this subtle
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