A Victim of affection

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Humble Pranams at the divine lotus feet Of our beloved Bhagawan, Continued..................... The Vishnudutas then said,"If a person unaware of the potency of a medicine takes that medicine or is forced to take it,it will act even without his knowledge.Even if he doesn't know the value of chanting the holy name of the Lord,the chanting will still be effective in liberating one from reincarnation". "At the time of death," said the Vishnudutas,"Ajamila helplessly and very loudly chanted the holy name of the Lord,Narayana.That chanting alone has already freed him from having to take birth again for his sinful life.Therefore by another term of imprisonment in a material body." The Vishnudutas then released Ajamila from the ropesof the servants of death.Ajamila came to his senses and,free from fear,paid his heartfelt respects to

the Vishnudutas by bowing his head at their feet.But the Vishudutas saw that Ajamila was trying to say something to them,they disappeared. "Was this a dream that I saw ?" Ajamila wondered."Or was it reality?I saw fearsome men with ropes in their hands coming to drag me away.Where have they gone?and where are those four radiant persons who saved me?". Ajamila then began to reflect on his life."Being a servant of my senses,how degraded I became! I fell down from my position as a saintly Brahmana and begot children in the womb of a prostitute.Indeed, I gave up my chaste and beautiful young wife.What's more,my father and mother were old and had no other friend or son to look after them,they lived with great pain and difficulty.It is now clear that a sinful person like myself should have been forced in his next life to suffer heelishly. "I am such an unfortunate person," said

Ajamila,"but now that I have another chance,I must try to become free from the vicious cycle of birth and death." Ajamila immediately renounced his prostitute wife and journeyed to Haradwar,a place of piligrimage in the Himalaya Mountains.There he took shelter at a Vishnu temple,where he practiced Bhakthi Yoga,The yoga of devotional service to the Supreme Lord.When his mind and intelligence were fixed in perfect meditation on the form of the Lord,Ajamila again saw before him four celestial beings.REcognizing them as the same Vishnudutas who had saved him from the agents of death,he bowed down before them. There at Haradwar,on the banks of the Ganges,Ajamila gave up his temporary,material body and regained his eternal,spiritual form.Accompanied by the Vishnudutas,he boarded a golden aircraft and,passing through the airways,went directly to the abode of Lord Vishnu,never again to reincarnate in this material

world. The End. Sai Embodiments!, Bhagawan in many of his discourses has put forth saying that the Atma is constant and changeless and all of us have to understand this concept of recognising the Divinity with in us . ||vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya navani grhnati naro 'parani tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany anyani samyati navani dehi|| "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, similarly, the soul accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless

ones". Bhagawad Gita ch 2 verse 22. Bhagawan as a reminder in each of his discourses has mentioned never should one have body attatchment .He gives a wonderful example of saying "This kerchief is mine, so If I am saying this is mine then I must be different from the kerchief then who am I? I am I this is the answer that Bhagawan expects us to realise. May Bhagawan's grace be on all of us in realising this Eternal truth! May we all surrender to that Supreme Lord of this Yuga Sri Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba.! Jai Sai Ram.