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“Baba, these are days of heat. The sleeping-cot of this man will be kept in a field outside the village for eight days. Then we shall see how the wall would go to him."
The Sadhu said :
“Try it. It is not in his fate to see the morning of the ninth day. The Fate Will lead him himself to the wall.”
The talk was complete. All became engaged in their respective works. The man destined to die started sleeping on a cot kept in an open plain: outside the village. He did not come in. the village even during the day. He got food, drink and everything in that plain. It was a question of only eight days. Eight days could pass away easily in no time.
The night of the eighth day came on. The first two quarters of that night: passed away. Everything was completely silent round-about All were in deop sleep.
