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Vol. 27, No.1, February 2023 MA ANANDAMAYEE AMRIT VARTA 3

Shree Shree Ma Anandamayee Prasanga
(Volume - V)

Amulya Kumar Dutta Gupta
(continued from before)

Thieves in Kishenpur Ashram, Dehradun
23rd Jaisth 1356, Monday (6-6-1949). The menace of the thieves has
increased a lot in Dehradun city and in Kishenpur too. Within three - four days
three houses have been robbed. In our Ashram thieves had entered a house but
the residents were quite alert and hence nothing was stolen. Since there are a
limited number of policemen here in Kishenpur, it is not proper to totally depend
on them. The villagers had formed groups and in rotation were keeping vigilance
in the night. The residents were mentioning that earlier robbery was quite scarce
here. Only after the arrival of certain post-partition people from Punjab, this
calamity has begun. Shri Hariram Mittal’s house is very near to our Ashram. He
has recently donated a piece of land and a building worth rupees ten thousand
for the establishment of a fees-less charitable school. The School entrance was
inaugurated by Shree Shree Ma. He has also taken part in the vigilance and hence
almost daily came for Ma’s darshan in the night. Today when he arrived in the
night a discussion ensued on the on-going robbery all around.
Shree Shree Ma too narrated a story of a robbery. Ma said, “There was a
convicted thief. He regularly went to a sadhu and prayed for diksha and some
advice. After a lot of persuasion by the thief, one day the sadhu gave him diksha
and advised him not to tell lies or rob again. The thief stopped stealing. But this
stopped his only means of earning. So he and his wife and children began to
starve without food. Few days later when he again went to meet his Guru, the
Guru enquired whether he had stopped telling lies and stealing. He replied that
he has been following the Guru’s instructions exactly as mentioned but as a
result of this along with his wife and children he is on the verge of death because
stealing was his only means of livelihood. Hearing this, the Guru gave him
permission to start stealing but instructed him strictly not to tell lies. Hearing
this, the thief went to the palace to try his luck. The moment he broke into the
palace the king knew about it and arrived in front of the thief. The thief could
not recognise the king and the king also introducing himself as a fellow thief