Nakedness

[Guest guest]

Anasuya means `absence of envy'. She is said to be without

envy. One

day Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva decided to disturbed Anasuya penance.

They visited the hermitage of Atri and Anasuya in disguise, choosing

a time when they knew Rishi Atri would be away. Anasuya invited them

in and knowing that guests should be treated as gods, asked them what

they would like to eat. They replied " You may serve us whatever

you

like, but please feed up only after you have become naked; that is

our desire"

 

Confronted by this most impertinent and unreasonable request, Anasuya

took a Kamandalu and took some water from it. Sprinkling it over the

three Gods, she said : Become like babies!. And in that instant the

three chief gods of the universe were changed into babies.

 

Then Anasuya became naked and took each baby by turn and feed them

from her own breasts. By doing so she complied with their request

–

She fed them while naked, but they could not embarrass her or being

embarrass with her nakedness, for a baby has no idea what its

mother's breast is; it knows the breast only as a source of milk.

 

Only when we become aware of what the body meant for you, you felt

embarrassed by it. When you are too young to know or too advanced to

care, then your mind is no longer in your body; it is in your heart.