Passage 3

In English

Women preserve the culture of the country

The had trained their minds to help and promote spiritual discipline and so their minds never wavered or strayed into wrong paths. They stuck to - the Friend, the Kinsman, the Comrade, the Companion, the Lover and the Loved One. When was told by His friends and companions that the food packets that they had brought from their homes did not suffice to allay their hunger, He advised them to go a little way into the forest and ask food of the priests who were performing a huge (sacrifice) there. But when they did so, the priests would not even speak to them for their ceremonial purity would be undone by conversing with people born of lower castes! Besides, the was not yet finished and the valedictory offering to the fire had not been made, so how could they even think of handing out food to others before they had eaten themselves? When the boys returned with long faces indicating their failure to get food, asked them to go again, by-pass the men and ask the women instead. assured them that they would return happy and with large quantities of eatables. The boys found the women engaged in the kitchen. When they told them that had sent them to get some food, they left the kitchen and hurried to with huge quantities of the delicious food which had been prepared for the big feast ahead. Their hearts cried at the thought of in urgent need of food. They had heard of the Divine (miracles) of which revealed His Avatharhood (nature of Divine Incarnation), such as the destruction of the demonic force sent by His wicked uncle to slay Him. The priests peeped into the kitchen when the was over and found the vessels empty and the women gone to the presence of and His companions.