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A letter of one lady from Navsari is presented here. Our financial position was very feeble. My husband was invalid and ill. I had young sons. My elder daughter had been serving in the post office. Our family was maintained from the income of her salary. She had completed twenty-five years of her age. So we were anxious to get her married.

Luckily we selected a bridge-groom for our daughter. Our daughter also gave her consent for that young man. That young man also liked our daughter. The marriage was arranged. But one obstacle stopped the marriage. The bridge-groom’s mother said, ’Marriage may be arranged with simplicity. But this marriage can be done if you give 100 grams of gold to your daughter, otherwise I wont give my consent.’

‘We were put into the awkward position. We felt that our ship was sinking on the shore itself. We had no saving at all. Then how could we purchase 100 grams of gold? I had been sitting on the verandah highly disappointed. At that time a motorcycle passed by my house. I saw something dropped and fallen into the corner from that motorcycle. I was very much curious to know what was dropped there. To my wonder, it was a book of ‘Vaibhava Laxmi Vrat’. I wiped the book with one end of my sari, touched the same to my eyes and began to read it immediately sitting on the verandah. While reading it, I thought that our problem might be solved if I observe this Vrat of Vaibhava Laxmi. Probably Goddess Laxmiji might have sent this book to me to help me in my difficult situation! Deep and intense faith arose in my heart to observe the Vrat.

The very next day was Friday. After having taken the bath, I took the pious decision to observe the Vrat for ‘eleven Friday’ and started to perform the Vrat with proper rites as written in the book with full faith. I uttered ‘Jai Ma Laxmi’ the whole day on that Friday. In the evening I put my golden ring in a small bowl placed on the copper big pot, kept on the small heaps of rice. I worshipped according to the rites described in the book of Vrat and offered the sweet dish to Goddess Laxmiji and fasted for the whole day. I began to see the photograph with devotion everyday and entreated her to exempt me from my miseries. On the fifth Friday I began to worship Goddess Laxmi. My mind was completely absorbed in the photograph of Goddess Laxmi, seeing devotedly at the photograph. Exactly at that time my son, who was fifteen years old, came to me running fast and said, Mother see! We have won the lottery of Maharastra State, and we are lucky to win the prize of fifty thousand."

I leaped with over-joy. I said to him, ‘Be seated silently. Let me complete the worshipping, we shall talk after eating the sweet dish offered to the Goddess Laxmi.’

I finished the ceremonies of the Vrat whole –heatedly. We all ate the sweet dish offered to Goddess. Afterwards we checked the number of our lottery, and found that we had won the lottery.

Goddess Laxmiji had relieved me from the distress. Having received the amount of the lottery. I purchased 100 grams of gold, and ornaments were prepared from it. Our daughter got married; she was given the golden ornaments of 100 grams and was given send-off to her husband’s house with tears in our eyes.

Thus by the effective influence of the Vrat of Vaibhava Laxmi, my miseries were removed once for all. Jai Dhan Laxmi Goddess!!