Brahmacharis

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" There is a beautiful incident in the life of Ramakrishna. At one time, Mathur

Babu, his disciple and caretaker, unwillinglu tested the purity of his

character. Mathur arranged the matter with some fallen girls. Sri Ramakrishna

was taken to a room, where the girls with there bewitching charms planned to

entrap him. No sooner did he see them than Ramakrishna, with the simplicity of a

child, addressed them as Mother and fell into a state of ecstasy. He did not see

their moral perversity, or their ugly design. In his guilesss mind, every woman

was a manifestation of the Divine Mother. He could not see evil in anything. The

childlike purity of his soul worked the miracle. The suppressed motherhood in

the women came out. They repented of their sins and promised to lead a new life.

 

There is an equally attractive story in Hindu Mythology. Rishyasringa, a young

saint, was practicing austerities in the forest. He was totally untouched by any

idea of evil. The king of the country trembled before his spiritual power. He

and his ministers conspired with some courtesans who were commissoned to divert

the mind of the young saint from the path of rectitude. Early one morning the

saint went to the lake for his daily ablution. The surface of the lake was

covered with purple and white lotuses and the sun in its morning glory peered

from the eastern horizon. The saint stood in the water pondering over the purity

of creation. Suddenly, there was a splashing around him and casting his look

about he saw young girls of exquisite beauty darting their charming smiles at

him. The pure soul of the saint saw in them the beauty of the creator. He

addressed them as Mother. All their evil designs were defeated in an instant.

 

Their leader came back to the minister and said, " We have been chastised by the

pure look of a saint. He called us Mother, and the purity of the Eternal Mother

in us asserted itself. You always looked upon us as objects of your enjoyment.

We were the fire in which you constantly offered the oblation of lust and

passion. You wanted to propitiate the devil in us and in your presence we forgot

the God, which is our heritage. Had you ever worshipped that Divinity, you would

have received in return the heavenly nectar of immortality. You wanted the clay

of our physical charms and so we were mere toys in your hands. But the soul of

this saint with his innate purity brought back our Divinity. "

 

-Babaji Nagaraj