The Avadhuta Sanyasi
continued to instruct Yadu Maharaj.
A
Bagawatha who has performed Saranagathi must learn to be like a python. A
python never hunts for food. It lives in one place and waits for its preys. It
accepts any prey which comes across its path. It doesn’t worry about starving
to death because it knows that if it is meant to live, God will send a prey to
it.’
There
was once a Bagawathar called Madhavendra Swami. He practiced
ajagara
vridhi and ate only if someone offered him food. Such people eat whatever is
given without paying attention to taste. If nothing is offered they stay
hungry. Madhavendra Swami arrived at Vrindavan one day without having consumed
any food. He sat under a tree thinking about Lord Krishna’s pastimes when a
beautiful boy ran towards him without a cup of milk. The boy was dark with
curly locks.
‘My
mother asked me to give you this cup of milk,’ the boy said.
‘Child,
I don’t have any money to pay for milk.’
‘Its
okay. She has asked me to make sure that anyone who visits this place
doesn’t
remain hungry,’ said the child pushing the cup of milk in to the hands of
Madhavendra Swami.
‘Who
is your mother?’
‘Her
name is Yashoda.’
‘What!
And your father is…’
‘Nanda
Gopan,’ answered the child.
Madhavendra
caught hold of the child. ‘You are my Lord aren’t you?’
‘I
am just a cow herd. Let go of me. Don’t you know that Lord Narayanan is the
Lord?’
Madhavendra
Swami let go off the child thinking that it was coincidence that the child’s parents
were called Yashoda and Nanda Gopan. He drank the milk in one gulp and turned
to hand over the cup to the child but, there was no trace of the little boy! As
Madhavendra Swami believed that the Lord would provide for him, Lord Krishna
had come to play a little leela on Swami and had offered him milk!)
Continued On: http://thoughtsonsanathanadharma.blogspot.ca/2014/07/srimadh-bagawatham-krishnas-instruction.html
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