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angry. What you ought to do now is to give your consent to their marriage and to bestow upon them your benign blessings”.
The messenger thus communicated the message to King Vidyadhar. Meanwhile, a female attendant came and communicated to King Vidhyadhar the message sent by his daughter, Princess Padma. The attendant said, “Your Highness! I have brought this message from Princess Padma. She said that she had accompanied Shrikant out of her own wish, and that Shrikant was not at all to blame. "In my heart, I am already Shrikant's wife. Therefore I humbly entreat you not to be angry". This is her message to you”.
King Vidyadhar understood that the two had fallen in love with each other and at once decided to celebrate their marriage. So, he happily entered the city of Lanka and celebrated his daughter's marriage with eclat and grandeur.
From the point of view of man, the first fruit of marriage is to attain a pure and chaste wife. Marriage will be fruitful if one can attain an absolutely chaste, virtuous and noble wife.
A PREGNANT WOMAN SHOULD BESTOW CARE ON THE CHILD IN HER WOMB
The fruit of securing such a wife is the getting of noble children. If the mother is chaste, self-disciplined and cultured, her children, in all probability would be pure, unsullied, selfdisciplined and cultured. The woman will become cautious from the time of her becoming pregnant. She will know, "I am going to become a mother". From that time, she begins transforming her life. She takes care to see that the child in her womb does not experience any kind of physical and mental strain, stress or distress; and that no ignoble influence falls on the child. She gives up thinking of her own happiness, comforts and pleasures; and begins thinking of the welfare of the child. in her womb. She knows that every propensity of mind, word and body exercises a subtle influence on the child. She keeps even her thoughts and feelings noble and pure so that no evil influence may fall upon the child.
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