[Nectar] Nrisimhadeva was there !

[Guest guest]

By Ramananda Raya dasa

 

Dear Devotees,

 

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Attached is an article submitted by Shikar and Yoginee about the scary

event that happened to their family in South Africa. They were held up

in their own home by five gangsters. But miraculously, by Lord

Nrsimhadeva’s mercy, they were saved.

 

Your humble servants,

 

from BCS Secretariat

——————-

 

We arrived home just after nine o’clock that night, not knowing at

all what was destined to happen to us. We parked in the drive way and

in a sort of routine way, we walked to the front door. We started to go

inside when the sound of many footsteps startled us. We turned around

and witnessed the most frightening sight. There were five men standing

in a semi-circle in front of us. We were cornered. There was no where

to escape except into the house.

 

They were all dressed in dark clothes and four of them had balaclavas

covering their faces. They all stood in the same stance pointing their

guns in our direction. My heart started to beat faster as dreadful

thoughts rushed through my mind. Will I make it out of this? Will they

hurt us? Will anything happen to my family? This is when I heard the

voice of my father screaming “KRISHNA!! KRISHNA!!” The man who’s

face was visible commanded us to go into the house and deactivate the

alarm. He said, “Be quiet or I’ll shoot you!” Again, my fathers

voice, “KRISHNA!! KRISHNA!!” As one enters our house, the first

room visible is the temple room. The men could see our Prabhuapada

deity and our altar.

 

They instructed us to kneel on the floor of the entrance hall, however

my mother insisted on walking further into the house. When one of the

men asked her where she was going, she replied mechanically, “I need

to put the alarm off; I need to put the alarm off”. He pointed a gun

to her back as she walked off but for some reason, he did not follow

her. They did not move beyond the temple room. I decided that the only

thing I could do was join my dad. I screamed loudly with such anger and

desperation in my voice, “NRISIMHADEVA ?€? NRISIMHADEVA”. I

started to scream Nrisimhadeva prayers at them, as if I was using it as

my weapon. My dad then pointed to a picture of Krishna on the wall and

very courageously exclaimed, “This is my Lord and He is going to save

us!” The men were silent, they didn’t say a word. They just stood

there, looking really confused.

 

The man who did not have a balaclava pointed his gun towards my dad

once again but his hand started shaking and he didn’t pull the

trigger. From his facial expression I could see how terrified he was.

He was trembling. His eyes appeared as if he had seen a ghost. He

turned around, picked up a set of our car keys and they all ran away.

After they left, the police and the guards from our security company

quickly arrived on the scene in response to my mum’s phone call.

Later my mum told us that she did not see them carry any firearms at

all. Perhaps if she had seen them, she would not have been so brave as

to set the alarm siren off and phone the police. So now the questions

arise in my mind, why couldn’t the men walk beyond the temple room?

Why did they not follow my mother into the bedroom? Why did my mother

not see their guns? What made us react to scream to the Lord for help

and not be silent as the robbers demanded? Why did the men look so

terrified? Could they see something that we couldn’t see? The answer

is simple, NRISIMHADEVA WAS THERE!! The Lord protected us that night

and He saved us from being harmed by these terrible men. We could have

all been killed. We do not question what we did to deserve this

traumatic incident; but rather, we see it as an educational experience

to increase our faith in Lord Nrisimhadeva.

 

Om namo bhagavate sri maha-Nrisimhaya damstra-karala-vadanaya

ghora-rupaya vajra-nakhaya jvala-maline mama vighnan paca paca mama

bhayan bhindi bhindi mama satrun vidravaya vidravaya mama sarva ristan

prabhanjaya prabhanjaya chata chata, hana hana, chindi chindi mama

sarvabhistan puraya puraya mam raksa raksa hum phat svaha. “O

Nrisimhadeva, whose form is terrible by sharp and long teeth; who is

very fearful to see with strong, large nails; and who is garlanded by

flames-destroy, destroy my obstacles and kick out, kick out my fear.

Scatter, scatter my enemies, destroy, destroy my karma. Flash, flash!

Kill, kill! Cut, cut! Ever fulfill, fulfill my desire [to serve You]

and protect, protect me and all around me.”

 

All Glories to that most ferocious, most caring Lord Nrisimhadeva! Jai

Srila Prabhupada!

 

 

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~

You received this message because you are d to the Google Groups

"ISKCON - Hare Krishna - Nectar of devotion group" group.

To post to this group, send email to nectarofdevotion (AT) googl (DOT) com