[Nectar] Nrisimhadeva was there !

01-12-2007, 08:30 AM

By Ramananda Raya dasa

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Attached is an article submitted by Shikar and Yoginee about the scary
event that happened to their family in South Africa. They were held up
in their own home by five gangsters. But miraculously, by Lord
Nrsimhadeva’s mercy, they were saved.

Your humble servants,

from BCS Secretariat
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We arrived home just after nine o’clock that night, not knowing at
all what was destined to happen to us. We parked in the drive way and
in a sort of routine way, we walked to the front door. We started to go
inside when the sound of many footsteps startled us. We turned around
and witnessed the most frightening sight. There were five men standing
in a semi-circle in front of us. We were cornered. There was no where
to escape except into the house.

They were all dressed in dark clothes and four of them had balaclavas
covering their faces. They all stood in the same stance pointing their
guns in our direction. My heart started to beat faster as dreadful
thoughts rushed through my mind. Will I make it out of this? Will they
hurt us? Will anything happen to my family? This is when I heard the
voice of my father screaming “KRISHNA!! KRISHNA!!” The man who’s
face was visible commanded us to go into the house and deactivate the
alarm. He said, “Be quiet or I’ll shoot you!” Again, my fathers
voice, “KRISHNA!! KRISHNA!!” As one enters our house, the first
room visible is the temple room. The men could see our Prabhuapada
deity and our altar.

They instructed us to kneel on the floor of the entrance hall, however
my mother insisted on walking further into the house. When one of the
men asked her where she was going, she replied mechanically, “I need
to put the alarm off; I need to put the alarm off”. He pointed a gun
to her back as she walked off but for some reason, he did not follow
her. They did not move beyond the temple room. I decided that the only
thing I could do was join my dad. I screamed loudly with such anger and
desperation in my voice, “NRISIMHADEVA ?€? NRISIMHADEVA”. I
started to scream Nrisimhadeva prayers at them, as if I was using it as
my weapon. My dad then pointed to a picture of Krishna on the wall and
very courageously exclaimed, “This is my Lord and He is going to save
us!” The men were silent, they didn’t say a word. They just stood
there, looking really confused.

The man who did not have a balaclava pointed his gun towards my dad
once again but his hand started shaking and he didn’t pull the
trigger. From his facial expression I could see how terrified he was.
He was trembling. His eyes appeared as if he had seen a ghost. He
turned around, picked up a set of our car keys and they all ran away.
After they left, the police and the guards from our security company
quickly arrived on the scene in response to my mum’s phone call.
Later my mum told us that she did not see them carry any firearms at
all. Perhaps if she had seen them, she would not have been so brave as
to set the alarm siren off and phone the police. So now the questions
arise in my mind, why couldn’t the men walk beyond the temple room?
Why did they not follow my mother into the bedroom? Why did my mother
not see their guns? What made us react to scream to the Lord for help
and not be silent as the robbers demanded? Why did the men look so
terrified? Could they see something that we couldn’t see? The answer
is simple, NRISIMHADEVA WAS THERE!! The Lord protected us that night
and He saved us from being harmed by these terrible men. We could have
all been killed. We do not question what we did to deserve this
traumatic incident; but rather, we see it as an educational experience
to increase our faith in Lord Nrisimhadeva.

Om namo bhagavate sri maha-Nrisimhaya damstra-karala-vadanaya
ghora-rupaya vajra-nakhaya jvala-maline mama vighnan paca paca mama
bhayan bhindi bhindi mama satrun vidravaya vidravaya mama sarva ristan
prabhanjaya prabhanjaya chata chata, hana hana, chindi chindi mama
sarvabhistan puraya puraya mam raksa raksa hum phat svaha. “O
Nrisimhadeva, whose form is terrible by sharp and long teeth; who is
very fearful to see with strong, large nails; and who is garlanded by
flames-destroy, destroy my obstacles and kick out, kick out my fear.
Scatter, scatter my enemies, destroy, destroy my karma. Flash, flash!
Kill, kill! Cut, cut! Ever fulfill, fulfill my desire [to serve You]
and protect, protect me and all around me.”

All Glories to that most ferocious, most caring Lord Nrisimhadeva! Jai
Srila Prabhupada!

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