CHAPTER XXVI.
Infatuated with beauty! Who is not so with something or other? I am infatuated with the beauty of this variegated butterfly; you are so with the loveliness of that flowery creeper. What fault is there in that? Beauty is made to enchant.
These were Gobind Lâl's first thoughts. Even a righteous man thinks thus when his feet are on the first step of the ladder of sin. But as with gravitations in the external world, so with the attraction of sin in the inner world; at each step the tendency to fall is accelerated. Gobind Lâl’s fall was very rapid because his heart had for so many days been parched with the thirst for beauty. We can only weep, we cannot describe his fall.
Gradually the names of Rohini and Gobind Lâl came to be associated in the hearing of Krishna Kanta, to whom it gave
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