Madanamohana eats a late-night snack

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In Akbar's time there was one staunch devotee in his employ who

lived near Lucknow. In those days, Lucknow was famous for producing gur,

(sugarcane juice cooked into a block of unrefined sugar.) This devotee

(Suradasa "Madanamohana") would always send various gifts to Vrindaban

for Shrila Sanatana Gosvami's Deity, Shri Radha Madanamohana. Once, he

had sent a cartload of gur to Shri Madanamohana. By the time it arrived,

it was very late at night, and the Deity had already been put to rest.

The cart was unloaded, and everyone took rest. But Madanamohan couldn't

wait to eat the gur sent by His devotee, and He told the pujari so in a

dream. He said He wanted a feast of malpua prepared immediately. So all

the sevayatas got up and bathed, and began preparing a feast of malpua,

which was then offered to the Deity. Madanamohana thus ate tons of malpua

in the middle of the night.

 

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