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                        <id>https://media.amaravati.org/feeds/mara-and-the-mangala-part-two</id>
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                                <title><![CDATA[Mara and the Mangala II]]></title>
                    
                                <subtitle>Instalments for Ajahn Amaro&#039;s latest publication, Mara and the Magala Part II (The Liar)</subtitle>
                                                    <updated>2026-03-31T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
                        <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Hell of Molten Copper]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-hell-of-molten-copper" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/191</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Thirsty?’ jested the hell warden, ‘’ere, try some of this.’ He yanked viciously on the woman’s hair from the back, cricking her neck and forcing open her mouth. The stone scoop in his hand glowed with a sick green sheen as licklets of flame darted over th...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Beforeword]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/beforeword" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/190</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Once upon a time…<br /><br />
In the time before time – when before and after did not mean what they do now; when here and there were not as they are within this world; when self and other, alive and not alive, overlapped and blurred – there was no good o...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-01-24T08:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Forbidden Fruit]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/forbidden-fruit" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/192</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[I don’t know, Krishna, it doesn’t feel right to me. It isn’t honest.’ Maggot’s brow furrowed around the rose-coloured circlet that she habitually wore. ‘I don’t like it at all, hiding away, in secret.’

‘But Maggot, most people can’t see you anyway – you’...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-04-29T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Stolen Child]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-stolen-child" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/193</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[You haven’t shaved your head yet[^1],’ remarked Ananda.

‘Wha…?’ responded Krishna, surprised to see the Elder coming down the path, at this back part of the monastery woods.

‘It’s the full moon – look – the sun is setting there in the west and the moon...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[‘To Fulfil Desire is Happiness’]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/to-fulfil-desire-is-happiness" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/194</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Help <u>*me*</u>!’ Krishna stood forlornly in the track, looking at Dusaka and crying out both to him and to the universe in general.

‘Help *you*?’ Dusaka raised a bristling eyebrow, ‘By that you must mean you are asking me to help find your child.’

‘Wh...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-05-27T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[A Bride of the King]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/a-bride-of-the-king" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/199</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Bewildering and bedazzling as the preparations were, Vasabha was determined to stay focused. One slip would be enough to cause disaster; even though she was quick enough to make excuses, there were reasons and there were *reasons* why she might get someth...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-08-05T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Ambitions of Devadatta]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-ambitions-of-devadatta" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/205</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Gnawing doubts still pressed hungrily on Krishna’s heart although now they had taken a different form. He had sought out Devadatta and had immediately been impressed by his confidence and his demeanour. Like the Buddha he had been a prince of the Sakyan p...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-10-28T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Uninspiring Monk]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-uninspiring-monk" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/195</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[So, what did you make of all that?’

Krishna had returned to his kuti after the communal meal and had invited his friend Surama, an Elder amongst the community of monks, to come along and continue the conversation they had begun, once the Master had depar...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-06-10T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Encounter at the Well]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-encounter-at-the-well" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/196</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Life in Kulluta had become increasingly stressful and precarious over the last fifteen years. Sugandhi had been blissfully happy for the first year, after Harita was born, and even Mata-ji had been reasonably benign, but when her little girl reached the c...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Matanga’s Devotion]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/matangas-devotion" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/197</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[D’y think they will le’ me travel with you?’ Matanga anxiously asked. ‘Oi’ll walk far behoind and not cross nobody’s shadow[^1] nor touch no food Oi’m not supposted to.’ She glanced up from having tried to keep her eyes downcast, as was expected of the lo...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-07-08T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Kapilavatthu – The Citadel of the Sakyans]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/kapilavatthu-citadel-of-the-sakyans" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/198</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[King Pasenadi was feeling torn. He deeply loved his queen, Mallika, but in all their years of marriage she had only borne him one daughter, the Princess Vajiri. She, in turn, he loved very much but she was not a male, and according to the laws and customs...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-07-22T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Prince Jeta’s Grove]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/prince-jetas-grove" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/200</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[After the wedding ceremonies at the Palace, with all the grandeur of the court around her, Vasabha was surprised to hear that they would go to the Jetavana for a smaller, follow-up ceremony as well. The actual wedding was conducted by brahmin priests sinc...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-08-19T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[‘Together Forever’]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/together-forever" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/201</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Why are you doing all this for us?’ Maggot asked Muñca before he made his preparations to get them all to the Tusita Heaven, ‘The Abode of the Contented’. Her grief-torn concerns about Tambaka had been punctuated more and more by this question over the la...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-09-02T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[A Kanavera Falls]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/a-kanavera-falls" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/202</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Ninka felt as though something within her was fading, becoming thinner, paler. The vibrant and colourful dances continued around her, the waves of exquisite perfume ebbed and flowed, yet she felt a dimming, a diminution, a strange dampness and sense of dr...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-09-16T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Scandal in Savatthi]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/scandal-in-savatthi" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/207</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Unable to deal with her anger and grief Queen Vasabha needed to lash out. Even though more and more people seemed to be of the opinion that the Buddha was innocent, and was being framed by malicious parties, she still harboured a feeling, deep within her,...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-11-25T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Group of Six]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-group-of-six" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/203</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Quite soon after Krishna had arrived at the Jetavana he had renewed his friendship with Khujjuttara and that connection had developed helpfully over time. He had been somewhat sobered, chastened by the painful consequences of what he and the other monks h...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-09-30T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[‘Avoiding the Master?!’]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/avoiding-the-master" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/204</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Most of the Sangha were surprised when, one morning, the Master simply announced to the community that an evening meal, indeed any food after the passing of noon, was no longer to be permitted. He did not base his establishment of this new rule on any one...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Matanga’s Offering]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/matangas-offering" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/206</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Right where I hoped to find you!”’

Krishna was delighted to see Matanga again, not just because making contact with her was a major part of the plan of Devadatta and his followers but more because it had been a long time since he had seen her and had had...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-11-11T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Prince Vidudabha Visits his Ancestral Home]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/prince-vidudabha-visits-his-ancestral-home" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/210</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Vidudhabha had been pestering his mother, and occasionally his father, since he was seven Rains old[^1]. He had seen that the other children of the royal household – his half-sister Princess Vajiri and the daughters and sons of the noble families of Kosal...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2026-01-06T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Lone Wanderings]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/lone-wanderings" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/215</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Close to the city of Savatthi it may have been, but the world inside the Eastern Gatehouse Monastery was a place apart.

Vasabha and Kesini settled into their new life feeling a strange buoyancy and delight, not despite but rather because of their changed...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Prince’s Fury]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-princes-fury" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/211</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Zephyrs carried scents and falling petals gently across the Grove. Ant and Ninka had been locked in an intense conversation before the newly-arrived deva had joined them. Ant tried to bear in mind that her belovèd had just been hatched into this new life...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2026-01-20T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[On the Western Shore]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/on-the-western-shore" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/216</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Jammu, Swami-ji! Here Jammu,’[^1] the village children had crowded around Krishna, this stranger with a weird accent, and who was so black and white. His beard was now long and the colour of fresh snow, his skin had weathered to a wrinkled but still soot-...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2026-03-31T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Attack on the Sakyans]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-attack-on-the-sakyans" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/212</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Oceans of blood will bathe the feet of the Himavant, Father!’ Prince Vidudabha ranted and raged as he brought the shocking news of this deceit to King Pasenadi. He had been determined to be the one to inform his father how the Crown of Kosala had been ins...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[The Buddha in the Shade]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/the-buddha-in-the-shade" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/213</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Follow along after the Master and get close to the King. You might be able to help,’ Dusaka’s expression was uncharacteristically grave as he said this.

They could all tell this was serious indeed.

Maggot and Ambaka chose to stay with Vasabha, along wit...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2026-02-17T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Reunions]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/reunions" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/214</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Every tongue was wagging in Savatthi. The stories of the massacre of the Sakyans – the Master’s own people – as well as the demise of virtually the entirety of the Kosalan army, had reached the city with great speed. Bad news travels fast.

People had bee...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2026-03-03T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Krishna’s Change of Heart]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/krishnas-change-of-heart" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/208</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Xanthic instead of bright, the whites of Krishna’s eyes matched his heart which now felt sallow and wan. He had indeed been greatly cheered by the astonishing surprise that Queen Vasabha was not only his long-lost half-kinnari daughter but also that she h...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-12-09T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Pujika’s Delight]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://media.amaravati.org/serials/mara-and-the-mangala-ii-the-liar/pujikas-delight" />
            <id>https://media.amaravati.org/209</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Ajahn Amaro]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Pujika had moved to a small village, called Katara[^1], to the south of Savatthi, on the occasion of her marriage. She had been very happy about this for, even though she was leaving her family home, this village of her husband was even closer to the Jeta...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <updated>2025-12-23T05:00:00+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
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