The goddess was born in earthly form as a daughter to one of her devoted followers. One day, the father grew impatient with his inquisitive daughter's endless questions and told her to go away and leave him alone.
She did.
The girl went to a vendor and asked for seashell bracelets. "My father will pay you," she promised.
Meanwhile, her father was frantically looking for her. He ran to the nearby lake where he saw her arms, wearing the seashell bracelets and reaching to the sky; then she sank below the waters.
People still worship the goddess at that lake.
Inspired by: Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna
Notes: This is story 135 in the book. Ramakrishna told this story about the lake of "Ranjit Raya" near his birthplace of Kamarpukur in West Bengal. In the story told by Ramakrishna, the girl tells the vendor that he will find the money in such-and-such a box in such-and-such a place in her father's house, and when the man came to the house seeking payment, the money was just where the girl had said it would be.
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