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THE CONTEMPT FOR THE GRATEFUL
Kunchika said: "Listen....
There lived one poor Brahmin in a village of Magadh state. To add insult to injury there was a famine. Poor Brahmin became poorer. He pined for a grain of corn. He could not get anything from begging as all the cityzens were unhappy.
The Brahmin found out one way. He prepared one idol of the Goddess Durga and wrapped a cloth round it. Then he went from village to village proclaiming :
'Durga is the remover of all your mise. ries. By submitting to her, all the bondages of living beings break down.'
People began to look up to the idol with faith. One incident confirmed the Brahmin's saying. A wife of a merchant gave birth to a son. Brahmin was not only respected by that merchant but the whole
