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AMMA SAYS - STORY

 

Innocent Prayers - Thambrante Simham Va Va...

 

"Children, innocent prayers, calling out to the Lord, is a powerful

way to please the Lord. You don't need to be a scholar to do that.

Even for an uneducated layman or an illiterate forest dweller, the

Lord's grace can be attained if one is really determined to achieve

the goal."

 

"There is a story which illustrates this point. One of the disciples

of the first Sankaracharya was very proud of his devotion to the

Lord. His beloved deity was Narasimha, the man-lion, the fourth

incarnation of Vishnu. In order to please his beloved deity and to

have His vision, the devotee went to the forest to perform intense

tapas. For many days he meditated sitting on the rock near the

hermitage, and became seriously engaged doing austere sadhana."

 

"The sadhak did not notice that one day a forest dweller came to

watch him. The forest dweller observed him with great curiosity but

couldn't understand why this man was sitting in such an odd

position, upright with crossed legs. Since the devotee had his eyes

closed, the simple man mistook the meditative posture for sleep. The

forest dweller was so curious and eager to speak to the sleeping

man, that he came every day and waited for hours, hoping that the

devotee would open his eyes."

 

"At last, a day came when the sadhak emerged from his meditation.

The simple forest dweller approached him with great respect and

asked, 'Tambra, why do you always sit and sleep? Why don't you lie

down?' Seeing the innocence of the forest dweller, the devotee

laughed and said, 'Oh, silly man, I am not sleeping, I am meditating

on the form of my beloved deity'."

 

"Ofcourse the forest dweller didn't understand anything. Having

lived in the forest all his life, he was uneducated and

illiterate. 'Meditating? Beloved deity? What is that?' he exclaimed.

The devotee said, 'You do not understand this sort ot thing. I am

calling and praying to my Lord.' The forest dweller again

wondered, 'What! Calling someone without moving from this place? Why

don't you go and look for him?' The devotee did not reply. He simply

smiled and went back into medition."

 

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AMMA SHARANAM