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Hemlataben had two sons. She had lost her younger son of two years age, when she had gone for the holy bath at the fair held at Kumbha. She tried hard to inquire about the child. She gave advertisement in the newspaper and also on television. She went from one city to another and one village to another in search of him. She didn’t get the least information about him.

While searching, a year passed. All the savings and ornaments had been used up in searching him out, but he was not found at all.

The whole family was overcome with grief. They had lost the interest in the family-life. All day and night, the heart of Hemlataben and her husband had been burning in the terrible disappointment. They did not like to go anywhere. Anyhow they passed their days in distress.

One day they went to market to purchase the books for their elder son.

They happened to see a book named Vaibhava Laxmi Vrat. In their presence, four or five women purchased seven copies of that book and went away. They became curious about the same. They too purchased one copy of that book and returned home.

After finishing household work, they began to look into the book. They saw and read about the Shree Yantra the Amulet of Goddess Laxmi, the photographs of various incarnations of the Goddess, the rites to observe the Vrat, and wonderful incidents of the pious power of the Goddess. Hemlataben began to think, "Should my lost son return home if I observe this Vrat? Let me do it. Goddess has been always kind. She wants only deep devotion. Inspite of all my worldly efforts, I did not get anything. Now let me entreat Goddess Laxmi". While pondering, tears dropped form her eyes and said, "Oh! Goddess Dhan Laxmi, I shall certainly observe Vaibhava Laxmi Vrat for twenty-one Friday. I shall perform it devotedly and shall give one hundred and one copies of this book as present to women. But my merciful Mother! Get me back my lost son". Thus she took an oath and began to entreat the Goddess. After having lost the son, both the husband and wife talked the least with each other, as if they had been observing silence they were speechless. Hence forward, Hemlataben began to utter, "Jai Ma Vaibhava Laxmi" continuously.

From the following Friday, she started to observe Vaibhava Laxmi Vrat according to the rites as described in the shastras. She had not prepared any sweet dish since a year. But on that day she prepared the sweet dish of wheat flour and molasses and offered it to the Goddess.

Having completed the Vrat, she began to utter the pious name of the Goddess and went to bed. At dawn, she saw a large garden with a foundation of colored water in the dream. She saw her lost son in the garden.

In the morning, after taking bath, she bowed down her head to the photograph of Goddess Laxmiji, and to Shree Yantra. Then she kept her hand above the flames of the lamp and applied it to her eyes and sang the prayer of Laxmiji. She narrated the details of the dream to the Goddess speaking to her self only. She offered a coconut at the feet of the Goddess in the temple and again narrated the dream to herself. Then she returned home from the temple and told about the dream to her husband.

Her husband said to her, ‘The garden which you are talking about is situated in Mysore and it is named Vrundavan garden. I had once visited it.’

"Then let us go and inquire about our son in that garden. The Goddess herself has given me the hint by showing my son in the dream. My heart says to me "let us go there." Immediately the husband and wife became ready to go to Mysore. The elder son was entrusted to her paternal aunt.

They went to Vrundavan Garden of Mysore. They began to search with anxious eyes. At that time she was uttering "Jai Ma Vaibhava Laxmi" in the heart.

And a miracle happened. They saw their son playing with a child in the garden, where she had seen her child in the dream. A couple was sitting beside him. From their facial appearance they seemed to be Madrasi.

Running to the child, Hemalataben embraced it and began to weep sobbing herself. That Madrasi couple was amazed and stood there being dumb. Their son began to weep with fear. Hemalataben was consoled and calmed down by her husband. Then he told every thing about their lost child to that couple and showed them the cuttings of the newspaper.

The Madrasi couple said, ‘We had found this child when we had sat in the train after taking the holy bath at the fair held at Kumbh. We did not know how that child had come into the train. But the child was crying much. So we had brought the child to Mysore and we were treating him as our own child’.

After doing certain procedure, Hemalataben and her husband returned home safely with their lost son. Once again the family was full of joy and happiness.

Afterwards she used to prepare some sweet dish and used to offer it to Goddess Laxmi every Friday. She celebrated the Vrat after having completed the observance for twenty-one Friday and gave 101 books of Vaibhava Laxmi Vrat to 101 women as present.

Her relatives and neighbors all were wonder-struck with the divine miracle happened in Hemalataben’s family.

Such is the miracle of the holy power of Vaibhava Laxmi Vrat. Jai Ma Vaibhava Laxmi!