The story of AJAMILA

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The story of Ajamila

 

Taken from Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 6

Ajamila was raised according to the Vedic regulations. He was a perfectly

trained brahmana and had a chaste and beautiful wife.

But one day, while he was out in the fields collecting flowers for worshipping

the Lord, he happened to see a drunken sudra and a prostitute engaged in sexual

embrace. Ajamila became bewildered and attracted; his mind becoming more and

more attached to the prostitute. In Bhagavad-gita it says that if one

contemplates sense objects, he becomes attached to them. Although Ajamila was a

strict brahmana he became helplessly entangled by seeing a man and woman engaged

in sexual activity. Consequently he took this prostitute into his home as a

maidservant. Inevitably, he became so entangled that he abandoned his family,

wife and children and went off with the prostitute. Due to his illicit

connection with the prostitute, he lost all his good qualities. He became a

thief, a liar, a drunkard, even a murderer. He completely forgot about his

original training as a brahmana, and his whole life was ruined.Engaging in

sinful activities, Ajamila fell down

from his position, and he begot many children through the womb of the

prostitute. Even towards the end of his life, around the age of eighty, he was

still begetting children. It is explained that while he was dying, which is a

very fearful time, he began to call out to his pet child, whose name was

Narayana. Narayana is another name of God or Krishna. At that time, the

Yamadutas, the messengers of death, were coming. They were tying up the subtle

body of Ajamila and preparing to take him to be punished by Yamaraja, the lord

of death. At the same time, because he happened to be speaking the holy name of

the Lord Narayana, the beautiful Visnudutas, the messengers of Krishna, also

arrived there. They checked the activities of the Yamadutas, refusing to allow

them to take Ajamila for punishment. The Yamadutas were bewildered. "Why are

these effulgent and beautiful personalities checking our action? It's our duty

to take sinful men to Yamaraja for punishment; then they are awarded another

material body for the next life so that they can get the result of their sinful

activity." There was a discussion between the Yamadutas and the Visnudutas. The

conclusion was that although Ajamila was sinful throughout his life and gave up

his religious life, his wife and children and begot children through a

prostitute, he nevertheless was purified from all these sins because at the

last moment he chanted the holy name of Krishna, Narayana.

Although Ajamila had committed so many sinful deeds, because he chanted the name

of Narayana, he was relieved of all sinful activities.

Mrs.Sudesh Johar

Sydney, Australia

Tel: 61 42 5222 635

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