Night Mare is Over

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

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Seeing Anjana, Pavananjaya, became very angry and thought "See her audacity....! See her impudence...! From the very beginning I have seen her faithlessness."
Anjana, folded her hands and falling at his feet said "My lord ! Though I have been abandoned by you, yet I survive, hanging on the shreds of satisfaction derived from the thought that you are living at hand. It is with great difficulty that I am alive. Before going to foreign lands, you have conversed with every member of the household excluding myself, but still it is my humble request kindly not to forget me. For the noble ladies, the husband is the sole refuge. May you come back soon ! May your path be auspicious !"
With arched eyebrows, red eyes and screwed face Pavananjaya strode on without heeding or replying a single word.
Like an uprooted tree Anjana fainted in her room. It was too much for her tender heart to bear. The grief of separation and the insult combined together broke her heart. She broke down, and in voice choked with sobs, said, "O God !.... Is anything yet left to happen to me ? Mother ! All your effort to make me happy have gone otherwise. When my fate is against me, what can you do ?"
Thus she would weep but the karma theory provided solace to her. After all, she thought, one's karmic fruits must be borne, whether one laughs or cries. Thus she would console herself.
7. MEETING
Pavananjaya encamped on the Lake Man-sarowar with his army. The sun had disappeared below the horizon. He was looking at the beauty of the nature and enjoying it.
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