Passage 18

In English

While was struggling in his own mind in this way, everyone else was sleeping in their respective camps after the tiresome battle during the day. Then woke up and said that she should somehow disguise herself by using a big blanket to cover herself and follow Him. was leading and was following him. The reason was that even did not know the residence of and so was leading her. As soon as they approached ’s camp, moved aside a little and told that was struggling because of sleeplessness and that she should enter the house quietly and fall at ’s feet. When was moving gently, found that she was wearing shoes which were appropriate to wealthy people in those days and they were making some noise. Then stopped and asked her to remove the shoes as they were making a lot of noise. She removed the shoes and wrapped them and held them in his own hands. She went into ’s tent where he was moving up and down restlessly. As soon as she was face to face with , she, with her bangles and ornaments making a lot of noise, immediately fell at his feet. realised that she was a family woman and a married woman and he immediately blessed her by saying . That was the blessing which he spontaneously gave to .