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jay sathguru
maharaj ki jay
ACHYUTHA
PRIYAA
short
stories to regain your faith
Radhekrishna!
! Are you excited to know the experience of the young boy?
The
young boy had an unconditional blind faith in Bagawan Krishna. He was sure that
Bagawan Krishna would fulfill all his wishes. But he was not lazy or sitting
idle. He tried from his part, this is bhakthi. Bhakthi is not running away from
our duties but doing it more effectively. Even some have notion that if one is
engrossed totally in bhakthi he will become a sanyasi. But this is not true! If
sanyasam is the only right dharma then Bagawan Krishna should have created only
males or only females. There would have been no need of marriage.
Even
being in family one can do bhakthi. This is what many of our great bhakthas like
Jayadevar, Padhmavathy had proved it. Even today there are many bhakthas who
lead a family life in India. The family, which does bhagawadh bhakthi, is the
only ones experiencing eternal happiness.
Bhakthi
is for doing our karma i.e. duties more sincerely. But everyone lacks this
sincerity. Everyone are doing their respective duties but the fruit of these
duties i.e. happiness is not attained by them. This is because they don’t do
their duties with true devotion. Everyone does their duty either for themselves
or for their family but no one does the duty for Bagawan Krishna.
Hinduism
does not ask anyone to change their life styles but the only thing it asks to
change is the mental attitude. This is the strength of Hinduism. If one does so
he can experience life in a more beautiful manner. But the thing is no one is
ready to change their mental attitude and this is the root cause of all
problems. ‘My Bagawan is with me! He will never let me down and whatever karma
I do will be dedicated to Him!’ This is the change required in the mental
attitude.
kaayEna VaachA manasEndhriyairvA
bhudhyAthmanA vaa prakruthE: svabhAvAth
karOmi yadhyath SAKALAM parasmai
KRISHNAAYETHI SAMARPAYAAMI
O Lord Krishna! I offer all that which I have done,
through thought, word and body (deed),
consciously or unconsciously,
by force of habit, or pull of maya and karma.
Kindly forgive me and protect me.
‘I
am doing this for money, for her, for him etc' all these things makes us get
upset and confused. But we have to do all our karmas only for Bagawan Krishna.
If we do so our duties turns out to be offering to Bagawan Krishna. Life is very
very very comfortable. We are the only ones who try hard to make our life
complicated. This is the only truth. If we do our duties sincerely for Bagawan
Krishna then we ourselves can feel a change towards life.
The
young boy had this faith in Bagawan Krishna that ‘he is always there to
protect me. I cannot go in the wrong way. I would definitely be on a right
path.’ And thus he does all his duties sincerely for Bagawan Krishna by
chanting His naama. Naamasankeerthanam- the only good thing that we can do for
our aathma. If we look into life
from cradle to grave we have to live for others. But for our self we need some
kind of happiness. Though we stay in a family together everyone’s happiness
and peace of mind is different. There is no satisfaction in our life because we
have not given what the aathma desires for. If one is having meal just by seeing
it our hunger wont get satisfied. We have to consume our share of food our self
then only our hunger will be satisfied. Just like that the duty pertaining to
our aathma is naamasankeerthanam.
Its
so simple we can say it anywhere, anyway and anytime. Be it while sitting,
standing or lying we can chant. For naamasankeerthana it is not important where
we are and what we are doing only one thing, which matters the most, is our
mind. We just need a desire to chant. We can chant Krishna Krishna Krishna in
our heart continuously.
In
this way the young boy was fully engrossed in naamasankeerthanam. He was very
sincere and good. Everyone praised him for his virtues then too he considered it
as Bagawan Krishna’s grace. Human mentality is such that if the world praises
then we develop self-pride and if the same world curses us we feel hurt and
nowhere. Whatever may come our way we must surrender it at the lotus feet of
Bagawan Krishna by praying “Sarvam Krishnaarpnam”. Once we offer it to
Bagawan Krishna be it praise or curse we cannot be related to it. Thus we attain
eternal happiness.
The
young boy did his duties right from morning till night sincerely for Bagawan
Krishna. The purpose of work, the work itself and the fruit, everything is
Bagawan Krishna. Once the young boy’s father became seriously ill. At that
time the boy called for a doctor in his village.
The doctor came, examined him and said to the youngster “ it is very difficult
to save your father”. But the youngster felt that his father would survive.
This is the power of chanting and bhagawadh bhakthi; what should we talk, how,
in what tone, to whom etc. Even if the words are correct and the tone goes wrong
and the meaning would be different. But the youngster had unconditional faith
that he would save his father by Bagawan Krishna’s grace.
How
he saved his father? How did he realize Bagawan Krishna’s grace? Keep waiting.
Radhekrishna Radhekrishna
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