I forget taking off mala while answering nature's call

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Dear Friend

 

Thanks for this message......The Holy Rudraksa were given by Almighty God

Lord Siva to stop all the pain and suffering that is caused by negative

powers.....the reason we wear the different Beads with the different powers of

the

different Devatas is so that no negative powers will affect us in a negative

manner

 

Sidh Malas of different combinations have been found to be the most effective

in this regard

 

Thanks and Take Care Mitra

 

DharmaDev

 

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(Ramakrishna is describing visitors and saints that came to the

Dakshineswar Temple in the early days of his sadhana practice )--

 

"Another time, there came another holy man. He was drunk with Divine

knowledge. He looked like a ghoul--- almost naked, with dust all

over his body and head, and long hair and nails. On the upper part

of his body there was a tattered wrapper; it looked as if he'd got

it off some corpse on the cremation ground.

He stood in front of the Kali Temple and fixed his eyes on the image

and recited a hymn. He did it with such power that it seemed to me

the whole Temple shook and Mother looked pleased and smiled. Then he

went to the place where the beggers were sitting, and got his

prasad. But the beggers wouldn't let him sit near them, because of

his disgusting appearance. They drove him away.. Then I saw him

sitting with a dog, in a dirty corner where they'd thrown away the

leaf plates. He had put on arm around the dog, and the two of them

were sharing the remains of food on one of the leaves. The dog

didn't bark or try to get away, although he was a stranger. As I

watched him, I felt afraid. I was afraid that I might get to be like

him, and have to live like that, roaming around as he did. After I'd

seen him I said to Hriday:" That's not ordinary madness; He is mad

with ther highest God Consciousness." When Hriday heard this, he

ran out to get a look at the holy man and found him already leaving

the temple gardens. Hriday followed him a long way and kepy

asking, "Holy Sir, please teach me how I can realize God." At first,

he didn't answer. But atlast, when Hriday wouldn't leave him alone

and kept follwing him, he pointed to the sewer water around a drain

in the road and said, "When that water and the water of the Ganges

seem equally pure to you, then you'll realize God." Hriday

said, "Sir, please make me your disciple and take me with you." But

he didn't reply. He turned and went on. When he'd gone a great

distance, he looked back and saw Hriday still following him. He made

an angry face and picked up a brick, threatening to throw it at

Hriday. When Hriday fled, he dropped the brick, left the road and

disappeared. After that he was nowhere to be found."

 

 

 

from "Ramamkrishna and His Disciples by C. Isherwood (Touchstone

Books)