~ madhubani painting: the reformed good son ~
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Having been thoughtless and cruel to his parents, Purna-Dasa comes to his senses when they are at last old and blind. He carries them along a full round of pilgrimage sites. At one point beckoned by Krishna, he refuses to take his full attention from his parents -- and is regarded as being entirely justified in this attitude of late-developing filial devotion. Before it was too late, he became a model of support for parents in their old age.
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