[Guruvayur/Guruvayoor] The story of missing Thulasimala

[Guest guest]

Dear Syamalaji,

Radhe Krishna!

Everything goes as ordained by Him. We have no control. It is

human nature that when something good happens, we attribute it to our

cleverness, and when something goes wrong, we think God has done it.

Anything offered with Bhakti is okay with Him and He will gladly accept

it. "Patram, Pushpam, Phalam, Thoyam", you know that.. So dont get

worried or otherwise. Probably the Thulasimala has already found its

way to Guruvayoorappan without our knowledge! Kannan must be addicted

to the mala made by you!

Regards

KVG.

 

 

 

Syamala Nair wrote:

 

 

Jai Sreekrishna

 

 

The story of missing

Thulasimala

 

 

 

I would like to share my

experience I had last Sunday with the

Group. May be it will be difficult for

someone to digest, but it happened with

me and I am still wondering where that Thulasimala

disappeared.

 

I am attending

Narayaneeyam and Gita class at Mirar road ,a station away

from where I am staying. Before starting the

class, my teacher makes us sing swagatham

song and also some other keertans of Kannan.

After that she will do the abhishekam on a

small Krishna vigraham she carries

alongwith her. From the second class onwards, I had made

it a point to make one thulasi mala for

this vigraham The happiness I get on

seeing the vigraham adored with my

mala after abhishekam is beyond explanation.

 

Since I do not get that

fresh thulasi and flowers at Dahisar , on

my way home from office, I get down at Dadar where I get

fresh thulasi leaves and other flowers. Last

Saturday I saw very good Lotus . I bought

5 of them and the first thing in my mind was to take one Lotus to the

class as alankaram for the vigraham alongwith

thulasimala.

 

I also take

some prasadam like banana, sweets etc., for the

class on all Sundays That Saturday while coming back

from office, all of a sudden I thought of preparing

kabuli chana with coconut and green chilli for

a change as prasdam . So I took half

kg kabuli chana as well alongwith me.

 

On Saturday night, I made

the thulasimala as usual and kept it in a plastic bag along

with some flowers except the Lotus.

 

The next day morning, I

did boil the kabuli chana, but then I became lazy to scrape

the coconut etc., and decided not to take

this prasadam and instead decided to buy

bananas on my way to the class.

 

Then it was turn for the

Lotus flower. Here again, There was a change in my mind

and decided to go without it. Even now I do not know what is the reason

for this change of mind.

 

Finally I left for the

class around 7.45 AM. On my way I wanted to

buy bananas, but to my surprise, the

yellow banana which I carry (I never use the green banana commonly seen

in Mumbai ) was not there at all. I used to get the

yellow bananas any time, and

many a times on my way to class I used to buy the same.

However, that day I could not get the

same anywhere in the market. So I had no option but to buy the green

bananas

 

Finally I reached the

class. After keeping the bananas infront of the photo of

Guruvayoorappan, I opened the bag in which I had

kept the thulasimala and other flowers. To my surprise,

thulasimala was missing.

 

By then I was feeling

very guilty of everything that happened and I

could not concentrate on the keertans and thereafter the class

 

The other surprise was

that, that day there was no other prasadam from

anyone except bananas. Normally there used to be

palpayasam, appam, ada , ksheera, etc etc. So it was HIS

desire that I take some prasadam that day which I did not

 

Immediately after the

class, I phoned up home and asked my daughter to find out whether the

mala is lying there, but it was not there. After

reaching home, I searched nook and corner of the house, but it

was no where. Where does it disappear? I

have no answer. May be Kannan was telling

me, I asked you for the Lotus which you did not give. I asked for the

prasadam which you did not prepare. So I do not want your thulasimala

as well today

 

From the whole episode, I

learned a lesson - whenever you feel like doing something

for God, do it and never ignore such indusions as it is

HIS prerna . After this incident I could just say Ente

Kanna mappu and promised not to repeat this again

 

Humbly

Syamala

 

 

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Hare Krishna

 

Dear Syamala,

 

Gita says “whoever worship me with the easily

available things like water leaves, flowers and fruits

and with a pure heart I will accept that” .

 

A pure heart is the most important thing in prayer.

God cannot be pleased with costly prayers like

abishekam, archana, homam etc. God assesses the value

of a prayer or offering not on its cost, quatity or

grandstyle but on the purity of the heart with which

it is offered.

 

Krishna rejected the hospitality offered by Duryodhan

instead he went to Vidura’s home where he was received

warmly. Vidura’s wife was in joy to see Krishna in her

home. Lost in deep emotion and profound devotion, she

decided to entertain Krishna with bananas. How

strange! Vidura’s wife was offering banana peels to

Krishna for eating while the inner fruit was being

thrown away. She was lost in devotion and could not

pay attention to what she was doing. As for Krishna he

enjoyed the peels as if they were more delicious than

the bananas.

 

So love and devotion is more important while offering

..

 

 

Hare Krishna

 

Padma

 

--- Syamala Nair <syamalaraghunath wrote:

 

> Jai Sreekrishna

>

>

> The story of missing Thulasimala

>

>

>

> I would like to share my experience I had last

> Sunday with the Group. May be it will be

> difficult for someone to digest, but it happened

> with me and I am still wondering where that

> Thulasimala disappeared.

>

> I am attending Narayaneeyam and Gita class at

> Mirar road ,a station away from where I am

> staying. Before starting the class, my teacher

> makes us sing swagatham song and also some other

> keertans of Kannan. After that she will do the

> abhishekam on a small Krishna vigraham she

> carries alongwith her. From the second class

> onwards, I had made it a point to make one thulasi

> mala for this vigraham The happiness I get on

> seeing the vigraham adored with my mala after

> abhishekam is beyond explanation.

>

> Since I do not get that fresh thulasi and

> flowers at Dahisar , on my way home from office, I

> get down at Dadar where I get fresh thulasi

> leaves and other flowers. Last Saturday I saw very

> good Lotus . I bought 5 of them and the first thing

> in my mind was to take one Lotus to the class as

> alankaram for the vigraham alongwith thulasimala.

>

> I also take some prasadam like banana, sweets

> etc., for the class on all Sundays That Saturday

> while coming back from office, all of a sudden I

> thought of preparing kabuli chana with coconut and

> green chilli for a change as prasdam . So I took

> half kg kabuli chana as well alongwith me.

>

> On Saturday night, I made the thulasimala as

> usual and kept it in a plastic bag along with some

> flowers except the Lotus.

>

> The next day morning, I did boil the kabuli

> chana, but then I became lazy to scrape the coconut

> etc., and decided not to take this prasadam and

> instead decided to buy bananas on my way to the

> class.

>

> Then it was turn for the Lotus flower. Here again,

> There was a change in my mind and decided to go

> without it. Even now I do not know what is the

> reason for this change of mind.

>

> Finally I left for the class around 7.45 AM. On my

> way I wanted to buy bananas, but to my surprise,

> the yellow banana which I carry (I never use the

> green banana commonly seen in Mumbai ) was not there

> at all. I used to get the yellow bananas any

> time, and many a times on my way to class I used

> to buy the same. However, that day I could not get

> the same anywhere in the market. So I had no option

> but to buy the green bananas

>

> Finally I reached the class. After keeping the

> bananas infront of the photo of Guruvayoorappan, I

> opened the bag in which I had kept the

> thulasimala and other flowers. To my surprise,

> thulasimala was missing.

>

> By then I was feeling very guilty of everything

> that happened and I could not concentrate on the

> keertans and thereafter the class

>

> The other surprise was that, that day there was

> no other prasadam from anyone except bananas.

> Normally there used to be palpayasam, appam, ada ,

> ksheera, etc etc. So it was HIS desire that I take

> some prasadam that day which I did not

>

> Immediately after the class, I phoned up home and

> asked my daughter to find out whether the mala is

> lying there, but it was not there. After reaching

> home, I searched nook and corner of the house, but

> it was no where. Where does it disappear? I have

> no answer. May be Kannan was telling me, I asked

> you for the Lotus which you did not give. I asked

> for the prasadam which you did not prepare. So I do

> not want your thulasimala as well today

>

> From the whole episode, I learned a lesson -

> whenever you feel like doing something for God, do

> it and never ignore such indusions as it is HIS

> prerna . After this incident I could just say Ente

> Kanna mappu and promised not to repeat this again

>

> Humbly

> Syamala

>

>

>

>

> Check out the all-new Mail beta - Fire up a

> more powerful email and get things done faster.

 

 

 

 

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