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The faith in the heart of Damayanti was spellbinding. She
was confident that she would be able to stop the expected
calamity and thus save the hermitage because of the influence
of her purity of character and unflinching faith. Now ask
yourself, how many various rites and rituals do you perform
day in, day out ? You worship God, do Pooja, chant Navkar,
observe different vows, do penance on Tithis, respect and
obey Guru’s words, etc. Do you have confidence in any of
the above rituals enough to enable you to make a resolution
like Damayanti and eliminate someone’s trouble ? No, why ?
Is it because of lack of courage or lack of faith ?
You worshipped Lord many times. But is there even a single
day’s Darshan* engraved in your memory which you will
not agree to give away even if some Deva offers you 1 lakh
rupees in its’ exchange. Is there any specific Darshan wherein
you became so engrossed in Lord that you forgot everything
around ?

You became so sentimental that, “Oh Lord ! How fortunate
I am to acquire you ! You are my might, sight and light. All
the worldly luxuries seem pale in front of you.” How many
times has this occurred in your life ? If not, then how can
you trust the impact of the numerable Darshans that you have
done in your life ?

From this we can deduce that,
While observing any kind of penance, do it in such a way
that the luxuries of the entire material world seem pale
and unimportant compared to it. Get so engrossed in that
activity that you forget all the worldly joys and sorrows.

Today, we have such glorious examples of great men and
women like Damayanti only because they observed such

*Darshan – worshipping Lord
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