A Story on Faith

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Here is a story from the Gospel of Ramakrishna regarding Faith. I

remember this story well - Maa was reading it from the original

Bengali and Swamiji was translating. And how Maa clapped her hands

and laughed in glee when she read aloud to us , as each of the

seemingly impossible coincidences happened without any problems, all

because of the Faith of the hero of this story.

 

May you enjoy and be touched by it like She was :-)

 

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Once the son of a certain man lay at the point of death, and it

seemed that none could save his life.

 

A Sadhu, however, said to the father of the dying son, "There is but

one hope. If you can get in a human skull the venom of a cobra mixed

with a few drops of rain-water under the constellation of the Svati

star, your son's life can be saved."

 

The father looked up the almanac and found that the constellation of

Svati would be in the ascendant on the morrow. So he prayed,

saying, "O Lord, do Thou make possible all these conditions, and

spare the life of my son."

 

With extreme earnestness and longing in his heart, he set out on the

following evening and diligently searched in a deserted spot for a

human skull.

 

At last he found one under a tree and holding it in hand, waited for

the rain, praying.

 

Suddenly a shower came and a few drops of rain were deposited in the

upturned skull.

 

The man said to himself, "Now I have the water in the skull under

the right constellation."

 

Then he prayed earnestly: "Grant, O Lord, that the rest may also be

obtained."

 

In a short time he discovered, not far from there, a toad, and a

cobra springing to catch it. In a moment the toad jumped over the

skull, followed by the cobra whose venom fell into the skull.

 

With overwhelming gratitude the anxious father cried out, "Lord, by

Thy grace even impossible things are made possible. Now I know that

my son's life will be saved."

 

Therefore I say, if you have true faith and earnest longing, you

will get everything by the grace of the Lord.

 

Jai Maa !!!!

 

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