HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj
Lec: Chanting the Holy names with sincerity,
Lec: Chanting the Holy names with sincerity,
There is also a story that our Guru Maharaj would sometimes recite about how living in a village there was one prostitute and somehow or the other the family she was born in, she had to maintain her relatives and everything else and this was th only way she could make her money.
Now living right across the street was one very high priest, a Brahman and he was a very famous lecturer and he would give sermons throughout the day and his favourite examples in the sermons would be how degraded and sinful this prostitute was!
He would announce very boldly and loudly for everyone to hear and see that this prostitute was a sinful wretched woman and would go to hell and she would just go on with her business.
By destiny they both happened to die at the exact same time and the agents of God and the agents of Yamaraj, the superintendent of Death , they both came to the scene at the same time.
So the Vishnudutas , they came into the house of the prostitute and the yamadutas they came into the house of the priest.
So the priest laughed and he said that "Sorry but you have mixed up (laughs), you are supposed to go there and they are supposed to come here, therefore I am a very religious famous man and she is a prostitute sinful woman". And the superitendents of death checked their address , they said " No no , this is the correct house,".
He said, " No no , how is this possible?"
They had their chains and ropes around his soul and then he looked over and across the street the prostitute , her soul was on a beautiful palanquin.
He said, "What is this?"
They explained to him , " Although externally you were living very nicely in this world as a very religious and pious man , in your heart you were very envious and proud and this prostitute although she appears very sinful, in her heart she was always praying to God that " I am so fallen , so degraded , I am so useless my Lord, only your mercy can save me.
But you were just thinking how you are better than this person, you are better than that person and you are better than everybody, but you see God does not see on the outside, God sees from within the heart. He knows the heart of every living being, He is seated in the heart of every living being".
So we should not live a life and have this pride before us, ofcourse most of us are not living very holy lives as it is to be proud of but even to be proud of being saintly, what to speak of being proud of being wealthy or beautiful or very educated. Any type of pride we call our own is the greatest impediment for God consciousness.
Now living right across the street was one very high priest, a Brahman and he was a very famous lecturer and he would give sermons throughout the day and his favourite examples in the sermons would be how degraded and sinful this prostitute was!
He would announce very boldly and loudly for everyone to hear and see that this prostitute was a sinful wretched woman and would go to hell and she would just go on with her business.
By destiny they both happened to die at the exact same time and the agents of God and the agents of Yamaraj, the superintendent of Death , they both came to the scene at the same time.
So the Vishnudutas , they came into the house of the prostitute and the yamadutas they came into the house of the priest.
So the priest laughed and he said that "Sorry but you have mixed up (laughs), you are supposed to go there and they are supposed to come here, therefore I am a very religious famous man and she is a prostitute sinful woman". And the superitendents of death checked their address , they said " No no , this is the correct house,".
He said, " No no , how is this possible?"
They had their chains and ropes around his soul and then he looked over and across the street the prostitute , her soul was on a beautiful palanquin.
He said, "What is this?"
They explained to him , " Although externally you were living very nicely in this world as a very religious and pious man , in your heart you were very envious and proud and this prostitute although she appears very sinful, in her heart she was always praying to God that " I am so fallen , so degraded , I am so useless my Lord, only your mercy can save me.
But you were just thinking how you are better than this person, you are better than that person and you are better than everybody, but you see God does not see on the outside, God sees from within the heart. He knows the heart of every living being, He is seated in the heart of every living being".
So we should not live a life and have this pride before us, ofcourse most of us are not living very holy lives as it is to be proud of but even to be proud of being saintly, what to speak of being proud of being wealthy or beautiful or very educated. Any type of pride we call our own is the greatest impediment for God consciousness.
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