Story of Ajamila - concluded

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SB 6.2.22:

Having been released from the nooses of Yamarāja's servants, the

brahmana Ajamila, now free from fear, came to his senses and immediately

offered obeisances to the Viṣṇudūtas by bowing his head at their lotus

feet. He was extremely pleased by their presence, for he had seen them

save his life from the hands of the servants of Yamarāja.

SB

6.2.23: The order carriers of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead, the Viṣṇudūtas, saw that Ajamila was attempting to say

something, and thus they suddenly disappeared from his presence.

SB 6.2.24-25:

After hearing the discourses between the Yamadūtas and the

Viṣṇudūtas, Ajamila could understand the religious principles that act

under the three modes of material nature. These principles are mentioned

in the three Vedas. He could also understand the transcendental

religious principles, which are above the modes of material nature and

which concern the relationship between the living being and the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. Furthermore, Ajamila heard glorification of the

name, fame, qualities and pastimes of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead. He thus became a perfectly pure devotee. He could then remember

his past sinful activities, which he greatly regretted having performed.

SB

6.2.26: Ajamila said: Alas, being a servant of my senses, how

degraded I became! I fell down from my position as a duly qualified

brahmana and begot children in the womb of a prostitute.

SB

6.2.27: Alas, all condemnation upon me! I acted so sinfully

that I degraded my family tradition. Indeed, I gave up my chaste and

beautiful young wife to have sexual intercourse with a fallen prostitute

accustomed to drinking wine. All condemnation upon me!

SB

6.2.28: My father and mother were old and had no other son or

friend to look after them. Because I did not take care of them, they

lived with great difficulty. Alas, like an abominable lower-class man, I

ungratefully left them in that condition.

SB

6.2.29: It is now clear that as a consequence of such

activities, a sinful person like me must be thrown into hellish

conditions meant for those who have broken religious principles and must

there suffer extreme miseries.

SB

6.2.30: Was this a dream I saw, or was it reality? I saw

fearsome men with ropes in their hands coming to arrest me and drag me

away. Where have they gone?

SB

6.2.31: And where have those four liberated and very beautiful

persons gone who released me from arrest and saved me from being dragged

down to the hellish regions?

SB

6.2.32: I am certainly most abominable and unfortunate to have

merged in an ocean of sinful activities, but nevertheless, because of my

previous spiritual activities, I could see those four exalted

personalities who came to rescue me. Now I feel exceedingly happy

because of their visit.

SB

6.2.33: Were it not for my past devotional service, how could

I, a most unclean keeper of a prostitute, have gotten an opportunity to

chant the holy name of Vaikuṇṭhapati when I was just ready to die?

Certainly it could not have been possible.

SB

6.2.38: Simply because I chanted the holy name of the Lord in

the association of devotees, my heart is now becoming purified.

Therefore I shall not fall victim again to the false lures of material

sense gratification. Now that I have become fixed in the Absolute Truth,

henceforward I shall not identify myself with the body. I shall give up

false conceptions of "I" and "mine" and fix my mind on the lotus feet of

Krishna.

SB

6.2.39: Because of a moment's association with devotees [the

Viṣṇudūtas], Ajamila detached himself from the material conception of

life with determination. Thus freed from all material attraction, he

immediately started for Hardwar.

SB

6.2.40: In Hardwar, Ajamila took shelter at a Vishnu temple,

where he executed the process of bhakti-yoga. He controlled his senses

and fully applied his mind in the service of the Lord.

SB

6.2.41: Ajamila fully engaged in devotional service. Thus he

detached his mind from the process of sense gratification and became

fully absorbed in thinking of the form of the Lord.

SB

6.2.42: When his intelligence and mind were fixed upon the form

of the Lord, the brahmana Ajamila once again saw before him four

celestial persons. He could understand that they were those he had seen

previously, and thus he offered them his obeisances by bowing down

before them.

SB

6.2.43: Upon seeing the Viṣṇudūtas, Ajamila gave up his

material body at Hardwar on the bank of the Ganges. He regained his

original spiritual body, which was a body appropriate for an associate

of the Lord.

SB

6.2.44: Accompanied by the order carriers of Lord

Vishnu, Ajamila boarded an airplane made of gold. Passing through the

airways, he went directly to the abode of Lord Vishnu, the husband of

the goddess of fortune.