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the good and the bad. So the princess’s friends pushed aside
any shreds of humanity, compassion and dharma.

This helps us understand that unless we can put a constraint
on attachment, we shall never be able to follow the path of
dharma or practise compassion. Attachment is blind! Exile
it from the country of your soul. Desire for worldly objects
is poisonous. This desire poisons the perspective, and kills
common sense, good qualities and dharma consciousness.

Unborn Child put under a great deal of pain and
harassment

Now the princess’s friends arranged for some medication
that would abort the fetus in the princess’s womb. They
got Sunanda to drink that medicine. How did the abortion
causing medication taste? Horrible! Now let us see what
impact the medication had on the one month old fetus. Even
a strong well built young body, in the peak of life, will suffer
immensely if salt is rubbed into an open wound. How terribly
the fetus must have suffered when Sunanda drank the cruel
concoction that was going to murder her child! Unknown to
Sunanda, her beloved, Rupsen had died and had been reborn
in Sunanda’s womb.

Effectively, Sunanda was causing the most brutal and
horrifying pain and grief to the soul of the person she had
once loved - Rupsen. Rupsen’s fetus suffered a thousand
agonies. But being an unborn child, it was unable to express
its heartrending grief. Where could he have escaped? He was
stuck in his mother’s womb... And experiencing the most
agonizing pain ever!
Readers, you should not get angry on Sunanda because
Rupsen was suffering the consequences of his lack of self-
control and his deep attachment.

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