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[spiritual-Group] When will lord Krishna come to us

Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:19:31 -0600

 

A certain Swamiji gave an illustration. It is an illustration involving

the ordinary day-to-day life of a householder but, nonetheless, there is

something very impressive about this illustration. In a town in Bengal,

there was a man who worked in an office. He lived with his wife and two

children. One of the children was only three or four months old and the

other was seven years old. One day, the man told his wife, "You will

have to prepare breakfast early today because I have to go into the

office early. After I eat, I shall leave right away." When the wife went

to cook, she first put the baby on the bed and then went into the

kitchen. But, whenever she would enter the kitchen, the child would cry.

She thought, "With the child in my lap, how will I be able to cook? It

is very difficult." She was thinking what she should do. Then she

thought of a way she could manage. She called the seven-year-old child.

"Darling, come here!" she called. "Do you know that red toy in the

shop?"

"Yes, I know it," the child answered.

"Go and buy that toy, but be sure that it makes a nice jingling sound."

The child took some money and went off to buy the toy. He brought it

home and gave it to the mother. The mother laid the baby down on the bed

and hung the red-colored toy with the jingling sound above him, at the

end of a rope. The baby saw the toy and immediately started to play with

it, hitting it from side to side. The child was most delighted as he

continued to slap the toy and hear the jingling sound. For one hour he

played like that, and the mother went to do her cooking. After that, the

child started to feel hungry. For the entire time that the child was

playing, he did not remember his mother. But, now that he felt hungry,

he thought, "Oh, where is my mother?" But his mother did not come. Then,

he started crying, signifying, "I am hungry! Come!" He could not speak,

so he beckoned his mother by crying. "Come to me and suckle me! I am

hungry!" His mother, however, was busy cooking. "No," she thought, "let

the child cry."

After some time, the child stopped crying and went back to playing with

the toy---jingle, jingle, jingle. After playing like that for a while,

the pangs of hunger returned. His hunger increased and increased and he

became more and more unhappy. He began to cry for his mother even more

loudly than before.

His mother heard the crying of the baby, but thought that she should

first finish her cooking.

Finally, the hunger became unbearable for the child. The child thought,

"I don't want toys!" All he could think about was his mother.

His crying became louder and louder until he was screaming. He started

to throw his arms about and kick his legs, in a tantrum.

Then the mother thought, "Oh, I cannot stay away any longer!" The mother

ran toward the child, embraced him and suckled him.

 

Like this, the Supreme Lord has given us toys---the toy of a wife or

husband, toys of children, toys of buildings, toys of radios, toys of

videos, toys of computers. Seeing this, Krsna thinks, "They are absorbed

in their toys! I have no worries. I am engaged in My pastimes in the

transcendental realm. They do not want this. They want those things

instead. Here, take this computer! Take that video! Take this! Take

that!"

 

Upon the awakening of his real self (atma), a man feels the want of the

sweetest affection of the Supreme Lord. He cries, "Oh Supreme Lord! In

this world, nothing gives me happiness. Everything is temporary.

Everyone is selfish. You are my most beloved! Where are You? I have

forgotten You! Come! Come! I am in a furnace! Come! Come!" Weeping, he

calls, but Krsna does not come. "I am engaged in My pastimes," Krsna

says. For some time, the man then becomes absorbed in the affairs of his

family and relatives, and forgets Krsna. Time passes and he cries again,

"Where is My beloved Supreme Lord? Where is He?" Crying, crying. But,

the Supreme Lord still does not come. Ultimately, he shouts, "I do not

want a house! I do not want anything! Nobody is mine---You are mine! Oh

beloved Supreme Lord! Come! Come! Come!" He cries and weeps, tossing his

arms and legs about. Then Krsna cries, "Oh!" and comes to him. This sort

of perturbation of the heart, extreme eagerness for getting Bhagavan,

must be there.

 

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