Krishna delivers the need of His devotees

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Hare Krishna

 

 

 

Lord Krishna says

 

ananyas cintayanto mam

ye janah paryupaste

tesam nityabhiyutanam

yoga ksemam vahamy aham

 

 

Those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental

form to them I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.

 

 

There is story of a brahmana who regularly studied Bhagavad Gita. He

was poor and he lived with his wife in a small cottage. After daily

studying Bhagavad Gita, he would go to beg and in this way maintain

himself and his wife. One day as he read Bhagavad Gita he came

across a verse where Lord Krishna says, yoga ksemam vahamy aham- "

I will personally carry and deliver the needs of My devotees " , " How

is it that Bhagavan personally carries and delivers the needs of His

devotees? He may inspire someone to carry out the needs of the

devotees, such as giving charity. But that Bhagavan personally

delivers the needs seems impossible. "

 

Reading this verse again and again, the brahmana could not believe

it. He crossed it out with a red pen thinking it a mistake.

Afterwards he went to do his daily begging. That day everyone

offered him excuses rather than charity. Some said there was a death

in the family, others that their children were sick, and thus they

could not give alms that particular day.

 

Meanwhile, back at the brahmana's house, a young boy arrived and

knocked on the door. The brahman's wife answered and was surprised

to find the boy carrying a big load on his back. It contained

varieties of foodstuffs liked rice, pulses, spices, oil, flour etc.

The boy claimed to be a disciple of her husband who had sent him to

deliver these goods to his house. The surprised wife told the boy

her husband had no disciples, so it was not possible that he had

sent him with all these items. But the boy insisted, repeating

that her husband was his guru and had sent him to deliver these

items to his house.

 

The boy further told her that her husband had become disturbed with

him for carrying the load so slowly and had thus beaten him. Indeed,

he raised his cloth and showed the brahmana's the marks on his

back. She became surprised that her husband could be so cruel as to

beat such a young and beautiful boy. She told him to sit inside the

house so she could cook something and offer him some prasada.

 

Later that day, the brahmana returned home empty handed. He was

feeling very dejected because he and his wife would have to fast. As

soon as his wife saw him, she began scolding him for having made the

young boy carry such a heavy load and for beating him for not

carrying it swiftly. The brahmana was confused by his wife's

behavior. She had never spoken to him like this before and he had no

idea what she was talking about. He asked her to explain and she

told him what had happened. She said that the boy was still in the

house, but when the brahmana searched him, he was nowhere to be

found.

 

Later, as he sat to read his Bhagavad Gita he found that the verse

he had crossed out was again intact – the red ink was gone. He

started weeping, realizing that the young boy was actually Krishna

who had indeed come to his house to fulfill the pledge He made in

the Bhagavat Gita – that He carries and delivers the needs of His

devotees. The brahmana lamented that he was not as fortunate as his

wife who had been able to see Krishna personally and he condemned

himself for doubting the words of Bhagavat Gita .

 

 

Krishna's words are non different from Him, so the brahman's

striking out the verse amounted to striking Krishna's body. The

scratches and blood on the boy's back represented the red ink the

brahmana had used to cross out the verse. Bhagavat Gita should be

taken or accepted as it is directed by the speaker Himself. The

speaker of Bhagavat Gita is Lord Krishna. He has described

 

man-man bhava mad- bhakto

mad yaji mam namaskuru

mam evaisyasi yuktvaivam

atmanam mat parayanah

 

Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisance and

worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to

Me.

 

 

Lord Krishna says in the Gita

 

Yah sastra vidhim utsrjya, varate kama karatah

na sa siddhim avapnoti, na sukham na param gatim.

 

 

" He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his

own whims attains neither perfection, no happiness, not the supreme

destination " .

 

 

 

 

Hare Krishna

 

Padma