God – The Great Master of the World
Divine Life
Society Publication: The Majesty
of God-Consciousness – Bhagavadgita by Swami Krishnananda
There was a Brahmin who was a
great devotee of the Bhagavadgita – this is a story which touched me deeply,
and perhaps it has a great meaning. He was a great devotee of this verse: Ananyashchintayanto mam ye janah paryupasat;
tesham nityabhiyuktanam yogakshemam vahamyaham. He was so confident
of the help that he would receive from the Almighty that he was carefree in
life, poverty stricken though he was. Practically, he was living a life of
begging from the neighbourhood. Yet he was so confident that he would receive
what he wants because of the promise that the Almighty gives in this great
ordinance.
One day he had nothing to eat;
second day he went starving; third day there was nothing to eat, children were
crying, the mother in the house was weeping. "Is God dead, is He alive?
What is the meaning of your sloka? Throw out
this Bhagavadgita," said the old mother. The poor man was flabbergasted,
he wept, "Is this proclamation false? There is no truth in this
statement?" Down goes the Bhagavadgita – he struck that verse with a nail.
Those days, scriptures were written on a palm-leaf, not a printed paper like
this. He struck with a nail the verse written on a palm-leaf, tore it up, threw
it away and went out in disgust that no God exists. "We are dying and
nothing comes – and yet, there is this promise."
The old man went; very
interesting story for you to hear. He went weeping in the streets. The story
goes that one boy came running with a bag of rice on his back and with some
rations and many other things on his head – a large hoard – and threw it on the
verandah of the house, but his tongue was bleeding. The mother of the house
came out and asked, "Who are you? What is it that you are bringing?"
"These are the rations sent by your master; the father of the home has
sent this – I will go." "Thank you very much, but why are you
bleeding? What happened to your tongue?" "Oh," the boy said,
"I was a little delayed in bring you these things, and your man was so
angry with me that he tore my tongue." "Oh, I see. What a cruel
fellow! I did not know this." He vanished – the boy vanished.
After the old man came home,
the lady was down upon him. "What happened, are you mad? You tore the
tongue of that boy because he came a little late?" The old man said,
"Which boy? I never sent any boy." Then the lady described the whole
story. The old man burst into tears, cried, and then told the lady, "From
today, you are my Guru, you had darshan of Lord
Krishna; I had not that fortune." Who else could have brought this costly
stuff, and this indication of the torn tongue shows that it was nothing but
divine dispensation that so grandly operated. God is never unkind, He is never
unjust, He is never cruel, He never does harm to anybody – such is God.
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The Majesty
of God-Consciousness – Bhagavadgita by Swami Krishnananda
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