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only if you have an eye for virtues; In other words, jealousy will not appear.
EVEN A MOTHER IS JEALOUS OF HER SON'S HAPPINESS
Think of this real case of a certain mother. She performed the marriage of her only son. The bride was from a very good family. Of course, the mother and the father loved the son. "Our son must belong to us; not to his wife." They thought. After the marriage, the young man took his wife out for walk now and then. He never asked for his mother's permission. The mother became unhappy. She thought, "Now, my son does not care for me; and does not ask for my permission for anything.” She sometimes questioned him also; but he did not care for her. She now thought of a trick. She wrote out a love-letter as written by a lover and concealed it in the sari of her daughter-in-law. The next day when she took out the sari to wear, the letter fell down from it. She tried to take it up in amazement; but even before she took it up, her husband took it up and read it. His face and mood suddenly changed. The poor lady was greatly terrified. He spoke very harsh words to her. She was pregnant at the time. On account of reading that false love-letter the husband was so terribly angry that she could not pacify him. The mother felt greatly happy. “Now, my son will listen to me; and obey me”, she thought. For the sake of her happiness, the mother kindled a fire in the lives of her son and daughter-in
The daughter-in-law was sent away to her native place. She gave birth to a son in her father's house. She sent a message to her husband; but he did not go there. He did not go there for two years. The mother, of course, never told her son the truth about the love-letter. Two years later, the wife took a divorce and began a new life.
JEALOUSY BURNS AWAY LIFE
You see, the mother could not tolerate the happiness of her son and daughter-in-law and adopted a very mean and ignoble method to destroy their happiness. What greater calamity than this can jealousy cause? How jealous some people are of the
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