why Parents assign God's Name to their children !!!

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Krishna,Dear devotees of Lord Krishna,It is our tradition to assign god's name to newly born child such as Narayana, krishna, govinda, hari, gopal, radha, sita, parvathi, lakshmi, saraswati etc .But now a days parents is not doing so, may be because of the fashion. Even children will scold their parents for having god's name.Even my name is Binu, but if my parents would have kept my name as krishna, i am more happy.

 

In Srimad Bhagavatham there is a story narrated by S'ukadeva Gosvâmî, the

son of Vedavyâsa to Mahârâja Parîkshit.

In the city known as Kânyakubja there was a brâhmana named Ajâmila who married a prostitute

maidservant and lost all his brahminical qualities because of the association

of that low-class woman.

 

This fallen brâhmana, Ajâmila,

gave trouble to others by arresting them, by cheating them in gambling or by

directly plundering them. This was the way he earned his livelihood and

maintained his wife and children.

 

While he thus spent his time in abominable, sinful activities to maintain his

family of many sons, eighty-eight years of his life passed by.

 

That old man Ajâmila had ten sons, of whom the youngest

was a baby named Nârâyana. Since Nârâyana was the youngest of all the sons, he was naturally very dear to both his father and his mother.

 

Because of the child's broken language and awkward

movements, old Ajâmila was very much attached to him. He always took care of

the child and enjoyed the child's activities.

 

When Ajâmila chewed

food and ate it, he called the child

to chew and eat, and when he drank he called the child to drink also. Always

engaged in taking care of the child and calling his name, Nârâyana, Ajâmila

could not understand that his own time was now exhausted and that death was upon

him.

 

When the time of

death arrived for the foolish

Ajâmila, he began thinking

exclusively of his son Nârâyana.

 

Ajâmila then saw

three awkward persons with deformed

bodily features, fierce, twisted faces, and hair standing erect on their

bodies. With ropes in their hands, they had come to take him away to the abode of Yamarâja. When he saw them he was extremely bewildered, and because

of attachment to his child, who was playing a short distance away, Ajâmila

began to call him loudly by his name. Thus with

tears in his eyes he somehow or other chanted the holy name of Nârâyana.

 

the order carriers of

Vishnu, the Vishnudûtas, immediately arrived when they heard the holy name

of their master from the mouth of the dying Ajâmila, who had certainly chanted

without offense because he had chanted in complete anxiety.

 

The order carriers

of Yamarâja were snatching the soul from the core of the

heart of Ajâmila, the husband of the prostitute, but with resounding voices the

messengers of Lord Vishnu, the Vishnudûtas, forbade them to do so.

 

The greatly sinful

Ajâmila chanted only to call his son,

not knowing that he was chanting the

Lord's holy name. Nevertheless, by

chanting the holy name of the Lord, he remembered Nârâyana, and thus he was immediately

saved from the ropes of death.

 

Therefore it should be understood

that one is easily relieved from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name

of the Lord and chanting of His qualities and activities.

 

This is the only

process recommended for relief from sinful reactions.

 

Ajâmila, for

example, was extremely sinful, but while dying he merely chanted the holy name, and although

calling his son, he achieved

complete liberation because he remembered the name of Nârâyana.

 

Krishna,do nama japa & meditation,

I bow to Krishna, who is residing in your Heart,Binu Thazhe VeetilNote: Dear Rajeev Attaa, This is my new E-mail ID, I have closed my old account (binuyogi).