Guest guest Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 What is this story about the Lord's stone incarnation and the butcher, and what does it signify? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brajeshwara das Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 I'm only working from memory here, but here it goes. I looked for it on the net but can't find it. A devotee is in a market and sees a sila being used as a butcher's weight. He acquires the sila from the butcher, takes it home and cleans it and begins worshiping Him. One night in a dream the sila comes to the devotee and says "why did you take me from the butcher? I was having such a nice time there, going up, going down." The moral: you don't know what God wants, so you have to look to the higher Vaisnava (Guru) to tell you what service really is and that service descends to you, not that we can determine the will of the Lord on our own. Even what may be apparently the Lord's will (like being taken from a butcher's shop and worshiped) may be 180 degrees from the Lord's will. Sorry if I made any mistakes in my remembrance of the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 You told it the way I heard it from Guru Maharaj. What you said is fine. The devotee was a brahmin, the swing was going back and forth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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