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ous circumstances arose. The effect of the sinful Karma in the life of Queen Lilavati ended and the circumstances in her life changed. When the King went into his palace, he thought of Lilavati. "What a terrible injustice has been done to Lilavati! She was innocent. I did not make any enquiry at the time. I did not try to find out why she had wrapped herself with the Chief Minister's garment. I suspected her character. I suspected even the character of the Chief Minister, who is a man of extraordinary nobility. How wrongly did I think of them? I do not know where poor Lilavati has gone, and what has happened to her.” The king's heart overflowed with sorrow.
HOW CAN THOSE WHO CAUSE SORROW TO OTHERS BE HAPPY ?
And what about Kadamba? The king understood that all that had happened on account of Kadamba's conspiracy. She lost her place in the King's heart. Kadamba herself fell into the pit that she had dug for Lilavati. If we dig a pit for others, we ourselves would fall into it some day. “This even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poison's chalice to our own lips". She planned to get Lilavati cast away from the heart of the king and from the country. Of course, her wicked plan brought her happiness for a short time but in the long-run, she herself made her future, bleak and dark. Those who for their own happiness cause sorrow to others, can never be Remember that if to attain happiness for yourself, you try to cause sorrow to others, you yourself will fall into the abysmal depths of sorrow. Now, Kadamba had no place in the palace. She fell in the eyes of everyone. She became an object of bitter scorn and contempt. She herself realised that she had no place in the palace.
THE KING WAS WORRIED ABOUT LILAVATI
When on the next day, Pethad Shah came to the royal court, the king did not come to the court. The Chief Minister went into the palace to meet the king. The king was in his bed-room. The Chief Minister went into the King's bed-room. The King
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