Sunday, July 30, 2017

soul Journey - Jada Bharath - Bhagavatham

Journey of the soul - Jada Bharath - Bhagavatham

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Now, the King of that country was going in a palanquin by that way. One of the palanquin-bearers fell ill and King asked them to look for a substitute.


It was then that they saw ‘Jada’ – an able bodied youth sleeping under the tree. They woke him and demanded him to carry King’s palanquin. He did  accordingly. As he was carrying the palanquin, his steps did not match the other bearers and the King irritated because of that discomfort asked him to rest a while if he felt tired. For the first time in this life Jada opened his mouth and replied “who is that you are addressing? Can the soul get tired....?” and went on to talk about ‘soul’. King was taken aback, fell at his feet and sought his forgiveness and asked ‘Jada’ to give him knowledge of Self. Right there under a tree ‘Jada’ accepted that King as pupil and what followed was a beautiful discourse of ‘Soul’ and its’ attributes etc. This beautiful ‘dialogue’ is found in Srimad Bhagavatham.


Now do you understand how even a person who has been in rigorous practise for years can get ‘attached’ to a beautiful fawn and how ‘that attachment’ pushes his enlightenement by couple of janmas. He even had to take birth in ‘lower yoni’ – that of an animal.

The act of saving ‘that fawn’ was no doubt a noble act and yet that noble act too reaped bad results.

Now imagine how many emotions, attachments we have. We are also neck-deep in anger, lust, envy and greed. So imagine the outcome of such a life led! How can we complain about our life and life situations when we had led a life full of above said ‘vices’?


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