Passage 2

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In plain words

By the wealth of her virtue, Sāvitrī could restore her dead husband to life. Even in this Kali age there are many instances of a husband saved from danger by the prayer of his wife. From ancient times many virtuous mothers have been born in Bhārata, observed the Varalakṣmī vrata and become worthy of Varalakṣmī’s grace. After the slaying of Rāvaṇa, Rāma put Sītā to the ordeal of fire. That Sītā was a woman of great virtue was not unknown to Rāma, who is all-knowing, all-pervading and all-powerful. But people are crows. Rāma did this so as to leave them no room for suspicion of any kind. Without the slightest hesitation Sītā faced the ordeal of fire and proved her faithfulness as a wife. Women who are true in character and pure of heart leave no room for suspicion of any kind.

Anasūyā, Who Turned the Trimūrti Themselves into Babies

From ancient times Bhārata has gone on flourishing in well-being and plenty precisely because virtuous women and men lived in the sacred land of Bhārata. Anasūyā was the wife of the great sage Atri. She was a great pativratā. To test her, Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara themselves went to her house in the form of great sages and said, “Bhavati bhikṣāṃ dehi.” As she went to give them alms, they laid down a condition: “If we are to accept alms, you must serve us unclothed.” Then, with a pure heart, she made a resolve and turned them into little babies. By the purity of her heart and her truthful character she was able to turn the very Trimūrti into babies and play with them. Sarasvatī, Lakṣmī and Pārvatī, all three, came to her house and said, “Mother! If you turn our husbands into babies and play with them, what is to become of us?” Anasūyā took pity on them and gave them back their husbands. Then Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara granted her the boon that Dattātreya, whose form holds the three in one, would be born of her womb. He received the name Dattātreya precisely because he came to the great sage Atri as a son given in adoption.