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who heard were sad. 'Who is that wicked man who murdered the monk? They thought. The murderer was nowhere found.'
The group of monks departed from there. The nun Leelavati also saved her soul by fasting.
The sin of killing a monk was not any ordinary sin. In a short time the sin bore fruit. The body of Vijay was caught in the net work of many diseases. The pain was so much that the whole day he was almost crying. The members of his family hated him. Then what to talk of the Officials of the State? Thus hated, insulted and reeling under pain, Vijay went to the fourth hell.
Men have to reap the fruits of their actions. Their sin may not be known by the world. It may lie hidden, but according to the Law of Karma, to remain hidden is impossible."
