Lord Nrisimhadeva - recent pastimes

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Lord Nrsimhadev shows His mercy even to a non devotee.

 

Yasoda Mata's 85-year-old foster father passed away two months ago.

During his stay in the hospital, Yasoda Mata prepared a tape recorder and

played the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra all day long in his ward. Her foster

father was actually in semi-coma, but miraculously when he heard the Maha

mantra, gradually he awoke and with closed eyes he appeared to enjoying the

music and the sound vibration.

He started to follow the tempo by tapping his hand on the edge of his bed.

His

finger ring made the sound like "don, don dondon, don don ........ " He

looked like he was totally meditating on the Maha mantra. Suddenly he spoke,

"Look! There is a huge 5 clawed man, and his head looks just like a lion's,

he is coming into my ward. Don't you see him? He is coming ...." The foster

father still with eyes closed said "Oh, yes, I forgot you all cannot see

him, but he is really here. I do not know who He is?"

At that moment Yasoda Mata and her daughters looked at each other in great

surprise and answered. "Father, He is Lord Nrsimhadev". "What dev ??? I

don't know Him. But He is nodding His head to tell me that He is."

Yashoda mata felt great ecstasy in hearing this for in her house she keeps a

model of the Nrsimha Deity from Mayapur and had been offering heart felt

prayers to Him so that her father could leave the body without any

attachment and that his soul can become Krishna's devotee in his next birth.

Continuously her father said, "Look, He is smiling to me and starting to

speak

again .… Oh, He is telling me that I have to learn to chant what you are

chanting now.... what exactly are you chanting ?" He said.

"It is a mantra to call the holy name of Lord" Yasoda Mata replied.

" I don't know what mantra, but please teach Me." he said.

"All right father, please repeat after me and listen carefully -- Hare

Krishna, Hare Krishna........." Yasoda Mata taught her foster father word by

word patiently. Without taking a long time, he learned and tried to

chant.... and chanted so nicely.

The next day he passed away with tranquility.

During that weekend, we devotees here congregated together to do the kirtan

for Yasoda Mata's father at the memorial service. Yasoda Mata prepared the

prasadam garland, Ganga water, tulasi, and put tilak on her father, which

have all been done nicely and properly according to her guru maharaj H.H.

Giridhari Swami's telephone instruction. Her foster father's face looked so

peaceful, his cheeks were a little pink, and his body was soft. After some

customary ceremonies the body was sent to the incinerator. A Few hours later

the people who work in the memorial service came to us and exclaimed in

amazement - "We have never seen anyone's ashes look so white and beautiful

like jade as your father's! What happened to him? What were you chanting for

him?Could you write it down for us? We want to learn and we think we can

also chant while doing our service here."

 

Why the Lord Himself personally appeared before someone who we consider is

not a devotee proves the sastric statement - that if one is always engaged

in the devotional service of the Lord, their family members will be

benefited as well.

>From Lin Tulip

Taiwan, 20th March 2006