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Dear friends of TBP,

 

Bhakti is eternal.

 

The Lord Krishna and the Lapwing's Nest.

 

It was the battlefield of Kurukshetra. The white Conch-shells were

about to sound, the elephants to march frward, and the attack of the

archers to commence. The moment was brief and terrible. Banners were

flying, and the charioteers preparing for the advance. Suddenly a

little lapwing, who had built her nest in the turf of a hillock in the

midst of battlefield, drew the attention of the Lord Krishna by her

cries of anxiety and distress for her young. " Poor little mother! " He said

tenderly, " let this be thy protection! " and lifting a great elephant-bell that

had fallen near, He placed it over the lapwing's nest, and so, through the

eighteen days of raging battle that followed, a lapwing and her nestlings were

kept in safety in their nest, by the mercy of the Lord, even in the midst of the

raging field of Kurukshetra.

 

(By the courtesy of Sister Nivedita)

 

Yagnanarayana. bg1938sy