Vivekananda Mailing List-12/3/02

[Guest guest]

Now the princess had fallen so much in love with this young man that

she said, " I must marry this man or I shall die " ; and she went after

him to bring him back. Then our other Sannyasin, who had brought the

king there, said to him, " King, let us follow this pair " ; so they

walked after them, but at a good distance behind. The young Sannyasin

who had refused to marry the princess walked out into the country for

several miles. When he came to a forest and entered into it, the

princess followed him, and the other two followed them. Now this young

Sannyasin was well acquainted with that forest and knew all the

intricate paths in it. He suddenly passed into one of these and

disappeared, and the princess could not discover him. After trying for

a long time to find him she sat down under a tree and began to weep,

for she did not know the way out. Then our king and the other Sannyasin

came up to her and said, " Do not weep; we will show you the way out of

this forest, but it is too dark for us to find it now. Here is a big

tree; let us rest under it, and in the morning we will go early and

show you the road. "