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son relation, but they did not recognise each other and hence
committed this grave mistake due to ignorance. Insatiable
sensual desires on one side and ignorance on the other, then
what will remain ? Even if one is blinded by lust, if one is
aware that ‘This is my mother’, ‘this is my own son’, then in
spite of great beauty and attraction, one will not even think
of engaging in such sinful activities. But here recognition is
absent and hence grave sins are also exercised with much
delight and gay.

Thus, ignorance is the greatest sin. In fact, it is the father of
all sins.

The importance of a good family.

The Son revealed his identity :

Days passed as Kamlata and her son enjoyed physical pleasures
while being completely ignorant of the relation they shared.

One fine day the Vedic scholar said, “Tomorrow I will depart
from here.”

Due to the blood ties they shared, Kamlata felt closely
attached to him. She became sad and requested him to stay
a little longer.

He replied, “No. I cannot stay any more. I will now have
to go. It has been many days.” Kamlata inquired, “When
will we meet again ? Where do you stay ? What is your
occupation ?”

The Brahmin scholar thought that as it was anyways time to
leave so there was no harm in revealing the truth. Hence, he
started his story, “I am a Brahmin’s son. My mother Kamlata
had gone to fetch water from the well located outside the city
when the enemy king abducted her. I was only two years
old at that time. The King kept her imprisoned at his palace.

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