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The elderly man had now no doubt about the fact that the young man was fathered by him. Both the father and the son got united and left for home in a happy frame of mind.
having told this tale, Baba said, “One should not wait for death depending on the calculations of an astrologer, because on many an occasion their calculations prove to be wrong.”
Thereafter Baba told one of his short-tempered disciples, “anger ends in nothing. Patience instead pays.” To make this point clear, Baba told another tale:
There lived a shrew in a certain village. she could not spend her days without picking up a quarrel on any flimsy ground, thereby disturbing the people of her village. at long last, the villagers had an agreement with that lady. The agreement was that—she would quarrel with only one family of the village in turn. she would, as per the agreement, remain standing on one side of a pond and on the other side there would be a representative of the family to quarrel with her.
One day came the turn of an innocent man. it was the bridal day of their newly-wed daughter-in-law. in spite of the festivity all around, the mother-in-law was not in a good frame of mind. The loving daughter-in-law noted it and said to her, “Dear mother, why do you wear a sullen look?” Failing to avoid it, the mother- in-law said, “Today i will have to have a quarrel with a woman and that is why i am a bit worried. The cantankerous lady is really foul-mouthed.” The newly-wed daughter-in-law said, that she would go out to have a quarrel in place of her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law tried in vain to prevent her daughter-in-law from doing it. But the latter, without being restrained, went out waiting for a quarrel. On seeing her, the quarrelsome woman came out in a militant mood to pick up a quarrel with her. On seeing a little girl (i.e. the newly-wed one) standing on the other side of the pond, she began hurling chosen vitriolic and abusive words at her. Little did the girl feel upset at it and stood there mum. Getting no retort or reaction from the end of the newly-wed girl, she stopped herself. No sooner had she stopped abusing her, than the girl raised both of her hands in a gesture to keep quiet. at the
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