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remaining ball of dung in her hand and threw it out of the back door with a prayer on her lips, offering it to Lord Krishna with all her love. She thanked Him for giving her strength to clean her house, for the cleanliness in her house, and for the means by which she could clean her house.
At the same time that the woman offered the dung ball to Krishna in this manner, a strange event occurred in the temple in the middle of the town. In
this temple, there was a small statue
of Krishna hanging on the wall. The
priest was amazed to see that each
day at the same time, out of thin
air, a dung ball mysteriously flew
through the air and splaered all over
the Krishna statue. The priest was
incensed by such an occurrence and
could not understand from where the
dung ball came.
Thinking that someone in the
village must be behind this incident,
he searched the village night and day
for the culprit. He heard of a woman
living nearby who threw a dung ball
out of the back door of her home at the precise moment that dung splaered on the Krishna statue.
The priest hid behind a tree and watched the woman’s home for a few days. Sure enough, each day he saw her sweep her home with the dung ball and then throw it out of her back door into the yard. He concluded that she must be the culprit. Infuriated, he picked up a stick, jumped over the fence of the yard, and fell upon the woman, beating her badly. The woman’s arm was broken and bleeding, and she wept in pain. The priest, satisfied that he had protected Krishna, proudly walked back to the temple. He was sure that the statue would be clean this day. However, to his surprise, the arm of Lord Krishna had been broken and appeared to be bleeding.
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