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AMMA SAYS - STORY

 

Tulsidas and His Wife

 

"Before his spiritual quest, Tulsidas (author of the Tulsi Ramayana)

was a businessman. He was madly in love with his wife, and his

physical craving for her was so intense that he did not even want to

go to work.

 

Once, when she went to her parental home, Tulsidas's craving for her

grew so uncontrollable that he walked a long distance in the dark,

through wind and rain, just to be with her. So determined was he

that he mistook a dead body for a boat to cross a torrential river.

Finally, after midnight, he reached his destination only to discover

that all the doors were locked. Since his wife's room was on the

upper floor, he had to climb in order to reach her room. Taking a

python to be a thick rope, he scaled it and slipped into his wife's

room.

 

After all his difficulties, he expected his wife to be happy to see

him. But instead, she was so ashamed of his insane attachment to her

that she said to him, 'Had you directed this craving that you have

for me towards God, you would have realized God long ago.' Those

words came as a shock to Tulsidas, a blow to his ego, and he himself

must have felt extremely ashamed of his unintelligent and foolish

attachment to her.

 

He must have felt the burden of his attachment. Thus his whole

being, every cell, every atom of his body, every heartbeat, every

breath, and every pore of his body turned inward. That very moment

he realized the heavy burden of attachment he had been carrying in

the name of love. His heart skipped a beat to unload it and then was

filled with pure love for God. At that moment he decided to die to

his body-consciousness and to live in God-consciousness. He left his

wife and home and wandered as an ascetic.

 

Later he became the renowned saint we know as Tulsidas."

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AMMA SHARANAM