A Victim of affection

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Humble Pranams at the divine lotus feet Of our beloved Bhagawan, Continued..................... The Life Of Jada Bharata In his next life,King Bharata took birth in the family of a pure,saintly Brahmana priest and was known as Jada Bharata.By the Lord's mercy,he could

again remember his past lives. In Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna saya,"From Me come rememberance,knowledge,and forgetfulness."AS he grew up,Jada Bharata became very much afraid of his friends and relatives,because they were very materialistic and not at all intrested in making spiritual progress. The boy was in constant anxiety,for he feared that by their influence,he would again fall down into the life of an animal.There fore although he was very intelligent,he behaved just like madman. He pretended to be dull,blind,and deaf,so that mundane people would not try to talk to him.But with in himself,he was always thinking of the lord and chanting his glories,which alone can save one from repeated birth and death. Jada Bharata's father was filled with affection for his son, and in his heart he hoped that Jada Bharata would someday become a learned

scholarr.Therefore he tried to teach him the intrecacies of vedic knowledge.But Jada Bharata purposely behaved like a fool so that his father would abandon his attempts to instruct hime.If his father told him to do something,he would do exactly the opposite.Nevertheless,Jada Bharata's father,until time of his death,always tried to instruct the boy. Jada Bharatha's nine step brothers considered him dull and brainless,and when their father died,they abandoned all attempts to educate him.They could not understand Jada Bharata's inner spiritual advancement.But Jada Bharata never protested their mistreatment,for he was completely liberated from the bodily concept of life.what ever food came his way,he would accept it nd eat,whether it was much or little,palatable or unpalatable. Since he was in full transcedental consciousness,he was not disturbed by material dualities like heat and cold.His body was as strong as a

bull's, and his limbs were very muscular.He didn't care for winter's cold,summer's heat,wind or rain. Jai Sai Ram