RE: Gita Satsang - Resumption - Ch. 4 Summary - A story :-)

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Harih Om!

 

Sri Raghava's message reminds me a story related to an old woman devotee

lived in Pandaripura. She is an ardent devotee of Lord Panduranga. She did

exactly what Sri Raghava wants to do :-)

 

She has got such a devotion towards Lord Panduranga that she never does any

work with out offering the fruit of the work to Lord Panduranga... After

performing the work she would finish the work by saying

"PanduraMgArpaNamastu" -- means "I offer this to Lord Panduranga".

 

Everyday she wakes up early in the morning at 3AM and does the housecleaning

work. She was living in a thatched roof, mud walls kutia. The walls are

painted with cow dung paste as was the custom those days, and also cow dung

paste is applied in the front yard of the house. So everyday in the morning

after applying the cow dung in the front yard, the remaining pulp she used

to throw aside saying "pAMDuraMgArpaNamastu" - I offer this to Lord

Panduranga.

 

What the helpless Lord can do! He can't escape from his own promise... He

said he will accept anything which is offered to him with pure devotion in

Gita... :-) So everyday early in the morning, Lord Panduranga's statue was

getting drenched in the cow dung... And the Administrators of the Temple

becoming furious and speculating on various conspiracy theories, thinking on

who might be the culprit, who is insulting Lord Panduranga in such a way.

Finally they have decided that it is none other than the head priest doing

all this, because he is the only one who has access to the Santum Sanctorum!

So they put him in Jail. That head priest is an innocent. He is also

worried that somebody is insulting the Lord. Then he prays Lord Panduranga

to show a way so that he could prove his innocence. Lord Panduranga appears

in his dream and explains him that one of his devotees is offering cow dung

paste and he can't refuse her offering because of her total devotion.

 

The head priest, having known the cause for the early in the morning cow

dung ritual, requests the administrators to go with him. They all go in

search of this old woman and finally they find her in front of her home just

finishing applying the paste. She was about to throw away the remaining

pulp by saying "PanduramgArpanaM", the priest goes and prostrates in front

of her saying "Please don't Please don't".... Lord Panduranga also

personifies in front of her at the same time and gives her liberation.

 

Yours,

Madhava

 

>

> sunder hattangadi [sunderh]

> > To start with, for example, "Whatever you do, do it as an offering

> to

> > Me" [Gita 9:27].

> > For instance, if I have to sweep the floor, I would do it as if the

> > Lord would then need it for His use.

> >

> > With Love,

> > Raghava

>