Nrsimhadeva's mercy

[Guest guest]

Narrated by HG Pankajanghri Prabhu

 

Lord Nrsimhadev shows His mercy even to a non devotee

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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 don” “don, don don ii.. ”

 

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 i.” 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 .i Oh, He is telling me that I have to learn to chant what you

are chanting nowi. 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 Krishnaiii” Yasoda Mata

taught her foster father word by word patiently. Without taking a long time,

he learned and tried to chanti. 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