The point worth noting here is, She could have easily avoided this dire punishment by recanting her views ! and praising heaps on her father like her sisters did and could have easily married a handsome prince and lead a luxurious life. Her mother and sisters did intercede in her behalf but she wouldn't recant, leading to further angry his father.īUT. her conscience didn't permit to call her father a provider. She was truly a believer ! How could she have attributed her riches to anyone except the one who gave her, her lord !?īibi Rajni was not given any gold, any ornaments, any clothes or even a hut to start her 'married life' by her father. She was condemned by her father to live a life of indignity, poverty and outcaste. Back then, lepers were considered worse than lowest of castes. She accepted her fate as 'bhaana' (yes, something so tough for us to do) and continuously served and tended to her husband, begging for food from nearby villages. She might not have expected any miracle, but she sure believed unwaveringly that her god, in whose name alone she had rejected her noble life, would intercede. God alone knows for how many years, she must have lived in hardships like these. īut one such ordinary day, she came near a small lake, surrounded by a beautiful forest, she kept her husband there and went to nearby village to bring some food. Her husband saw a crow dip in amrit sarovar and become pure white.

He also took a dip and became healthy and young. 'Extra-ordinary assertion requires extra-ordinary evidence', I would also add How hard to find a bibi today who would stand up to her husband in times of despair and utter misery ? Would we jump off a cliff believing god will save us ?Ĭan we be so obedient to our parents to marry anyone, forget a leper, if they told us to ? īibi Rajni was blessed with 7 sons, eldest named 'Gurmukh' by Guru Ramdas ji himself.Īgain, I ask, how many of us have so much of faith ? Meanwhile, her father, the rich tax-collector became a beggar of sorts and spent the last years of her life with her.

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