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O intelligent one! Now once again do you want to marry
another man and invite the chance of your love and trust
being broken? You want to be cheated by time? The one I
marry will stay under my command – are you still under this
impression? Do you have any idea of the hidden Antraya
Karmas that you possess? Are you confident that they will not
come into action? What will be your mental state if such a
situation re-occurs?

O Virtuous soul! In spite of all this if you still feel that you
must marry to satisfy your desires, then won’t you be troubled
by the thought that, as a member of a noble family and
having mentally accepted one man as your soulmate, you will
now be expected to replace him? Think about Rajimati’s act
when Lord Neminath returned without marrying her. Did
she marry another man? Then, if you marry someone else,

won’t this be a blot on your nobility?

Q. Then what about lust and the unfulfilled desires? How
do satisfy them?

Ans. O wise lady! Can’t you control and eventually stop your
desires? Yes, you can. Innumerable great women have done
so in the past. Which worldly creatures are not enveloped by

the karmas and impressions of lust? Everyone is under its
control. Now if you feel that they cannot be suppressed and
hence their effects have to be necessarily borne, then while
doing so, you will lead to rise of new such karmas. Again they
have to be borne and so on. It is a never ending cycle.

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