Page 190 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 7

“Lion hearted men alone dare approach reality”
loved me only for your own selfish sake and she will not go with him.
Then he called his third wife, and asked her to follow him. The third wife replied that she pitied his condition and felt sad for herself too and that she would accompany him till the graveyard as that is her last duty to him.
Now he recalled that there was his fourth wife, for whom he did not care very much. He had treated her like a slave and had always showed much displeasure with her. He now thought that if he asked her to follow him to death, she certainly would say no. But his loneliness and fear were so severe that he made the effort to ask her to accompany him to the other world. The fourth wife gladly accepted her husband's request stating that whatever happens she is determined to stay with him and that she cannot be separated from him.
The story is philosophical and is explained generally as follows. The first 'wife' is our body. We love our body day and night. In the morning, we
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