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will smite you, give you a sting if you lift the child! She replied "Let it give a sting, but I cannot see the child crying." She lifted the child, chanted the Navakara Mantra for it, the child was highly delighted. The child told Nagadeva: "O sir! I have got what I desired. Now, please give some boon to her!" The Nagaraja told our preceptor: "Ask, and I give what you desire!"
Our revered preceptors said: "I want nothing else. I am going to Shankheshvar and I desire to take to Attham there. I desire that it be completed without any obstacle." "Be it so!" With these words the Nagaraja disappeared.
She then reached Shankhesvar. The elders consented and she took to the Atthama Tapas. When the third fast was on, she was a little worried. She was afraid that she might not be able to get up early. If this happens, how will it be possible to take to the Japa? Water could not be taken without completion of the Japa!
She was worried when she went to sleep. At 12 midnight, she awoke and immediately sat for the chanting of the Mahamantra.
She had chanted ten to twelve times, when Shri Bhidabhanjan Prashavanath Bhagavan came and sat in front of her. He began to take to varied forms. Revered preceptor submitted:
"You are our dispassionate (vitaraga) Bhagavan. Why do you sport with me with your varied forms?"
The scene continued. She then told: "Get for me the darshan of Shri Simandharswami Bhagavan!"
And really, she had the desired miraculous darshan in the course of Samavasarana when the
