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THE DARK CHAMBER
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Sudarshana

But how did you get this devotion towards that same King?

Surangama

How can I tell? Perhaps I could rely and depend on him because he was so hard, so pitiless!

Sudarshana

When did this change of feeling take place?

Surangama

I could not tell you—I do not know that myself. A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation on the dust of the earth. And then I saw . . . I saw that he was as matchless in beauty as in terror. Oh, I was saved, I was rescued.