Soul journey - Jada Bharath - Bhagavatham
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Sage Bharath, when he saw this
incident was moved and his heart went out for fawn. He lifted the fawn and took
it to his ashram, tended to it and his everyday routine now changed to looking
after that fawn.
If that fawn left ashram then
he would be dead worried till it returned. His waking thought was revolving
only around fawn. One fine day his time came and on death bed his only fear and
worry was “how can this simple and innocent fawn survive in this forest?”
As his last thought was that
of that ‘fawn’ he was born as a ‘deer’.
But because he had practiced immense
penance for many years too, he remembered his ‘previous birth’ and hence kept
away from the herd and moved in close proximity of ‘ashrams’ of Sages listening
to Vedas and Upanishads.
Hence, next life he received a human body and
remembered his previous births and its’ flaws too. Afraid of getting attached to this mortal
world if he mingled with it, he thought it fit to remain ‘mum’ right from his
birth. He would simply sit and be staring into nothingness for hours on end. He
actually was meditating then. But people thought he was not only dumb by a
sense but also by way of intelligence. He would do any work assigned to him
without even uttering a word. So, he came to be called ‘Jada’ meaning ‘inert
like a stone and also meaning one who is dumb’. When his parents died, his
elder brothers divided the wealth among themselves and giving nothing to ‘Jada’
assuming him to be dumb, an idiot. He didn’t mind. His brothers’ wives too were
unkind to him. He would not mind any of he taunts of any of these people. If they
gave something to eat, he would eat, if not he would go hungry. If they abused
him he simply left home stayed in woods and would return when their anger
subsided. One day, his family abused him
more than usual and he left home and kept walking till he left that village. He
slept under a tree by the side of the road.
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