By the Will of God

[Guest guest]

small house. They had stolen quite a lot of different things from various places

and were having a difficult time carrying all of them, so they wanted another

man to help them. Seeing the weaver, they came up and grabbed him by the hand;

"Come with us," they said, and pulled him to the road.

13.5pt">Now they robbed another house, and put the booty on the weaver's head

(in India this is the usual way of carrying things) and forced him to march.

Just at that moment the police caught up with them, but the robbers saw them

coming and ran away fast. Now the weaver, with his heavy load, was arrested. It

was so late, they just had to lock him up in jail, and do the questioning the

next day. He spent the night in jail, repeating the name of the Lord. Next

day, he was brought before the judge for trial. Word had spread through the

village that the pious weaver had been arrested, and the people came in groups

to the court and said to the judge, "Your honor, this man could never commit a

robbery". And they told him about the weaver's remarkable way of life.

0.75pt" alt="" type="#_x0000_t75" o:bullet="t"> The judge asked our friend the

weaver to state exactly what had happened. The weaver said, "Your honor, by the

will of God I finished my meal late at night. By the will of God I was sitting

on my porch chanting his name, when, by the will of God, this band of robbers

passed the house. By the will of God they dragged me with them and by the will

of God they put a load on my head. Just then, by the will of God, the police

arrived, and by

the will of God the others ran away and I was arrested. Then by the will of God

the police put me in jail overnight, and this morning by the will of God they

brought me before Your Honor." The judge understood very well

what kind of person the weaver was and ordered him to be let go. On his way home

the weaver said to his friends, "By the will of God I have been released and all

is well." -------Sri Ramakrishna

mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> Sivaya Namah

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