A Victim of affection

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Humble Pranams at the divine lotus feet Of our beloved Bhagawan, Continued..................... "My dear King Rahugana,as long as the conditioned soul accepts the material body and is not freed from the contamination of material enjoyment,and as long as he does not conquer his senses and his mind and come to the platform of self realization by awakening his spiritual knowledge,he is forced to wander in different places and in different forms in this material world." Jada Bharata then revealed his own past lives,"In a previous birth,I was known as King Bharata.I attained perfection by becoming completely detatched from material activities.I was fully engaged in the service of the Lors,but I relaxed my control over my mind and became so affectionate to a small deer that I neglected my spiritual duties.At the time of death I could think

of nothing but this deer,so in my next life I had to accept the body of a deer." Jada Bharata concluded his teachings by informing the King that those who desire freedom from the cycle of reincarnation must always associate with self realized devotees of the Lord.only by associating with exalted devotees can attain the perfection of knowledge and cut to pieces the iilusory associations of this material world. Unless one has the oppurtunity to get the association of the devotees of the Lord,he can never understand the first thing about spiritual life.The aboslute Truth is revealed only to one who has attained the mercy of a great devotee,because in the assembly of pure devotees,there is no question of discussing material subjects like politics and sociology. In an assembly of pure devotees,there is discussion only of the qualities,forms, and past times of the supreme personality of

Godhead,who is praised and worshipped with full attention. This is the simple secret by which one can revive his dormat spiritual consciousness,end forever the vicious cycle of reincarnation,and return to a life of eternal pleasure in the spiritual world. After receiving lessons from the great devotee Jada Bharata,King Rahugana became fully aware of the constitutional position of the soul and gave up completely the bodily conception of life,which chains the pure souls to the endless cycle of birth and death in the matreial world. The story of Ajamila yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram tam tam evaiti kaunteya sada tad-bhava-bhavitah (Bhagavad Gita ch 8 sh 6) "What ever state of being one remembers when he quits the body,that state he will attain with out fail " In the vedic scriptures of India we learn of the servants of Lord Vishnu,who appear at the time of death to accompany the pious soul on its way to the spiritual world. The vedas also tell of the fearsome agents of yamaraja,the Lord of death,who forcefully arrests the soul of a sinful man and prepare it for its next incarnation in the prison of a material body. In this historical account,the servants of Vishnu and the servants of Yamaraja dispute the fate of the soul of Ajamila,deciding whether he should be liberated or reincarnated. In the city of Kanyakubja,there once lived a young saintly Brahmana priest Ajaamila,who fell from the path of spiritual life and lost all of his good qualities when he fell in

love with a prostitute.Giving up his priestly duties,Ajaamila now made his living through robbery and gambling and passed his life in debauchery. To be continued.................. Jai Sai Ram