A Victim of affection

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Humble Pranams at the divine lotus feet Of our beloved Bhagawan, Continued..................... By the time he was eighty-eight years old,Ajamila had fathered 10 sons by the prostitute.The youngest,a baby,was named Narayana-one of the names of the Supreme Lord,Vishnu.Ajamila was very attatched to his young son and dervied great pleasure watching the child's early attempts to walk and talk. One day,without warning,the time of death arrived for the foolish Ajamila.Terrified,the old man saw beofre him gruesome figures with fierce,twisted faces. These subtle beings with ropes in their hands had come to forcibly escort him to the court of Yamaraja,the lord of Death.Seeing these ghoulish creatures,Ajamila became bewildered,and out of affection for his beloved child,who was playing a short distance away ,he began to cry

loudly,"Naryana!Narayana!"with tears in his eyes,weeping for his younger son,the great sinner Ajamila unconsciously chanted the holy name of the Lord. Hearing their master's name chanted with great feeling by the dying Ajamila,the order carriers of Vishnu,the Vishnudutas,arrived with in a second.They appearedjust like Lord Vishnu himself.Their eyes were exactly like the petals of a lotus flower;they wore helmets of burnished gold,glimmering silk garments the color of topaz;and their perfectly formed bodies were decorated with garlands of sapphire and milk white lotuses. They appeared fresh and youthful,and their dazzling effulgence illuminated the darkness of the death chamber.In their hands they held bows.arrows,swords,conchshells,clubs,discs,and lotus flowers. The vishnudutas,who had never been before encountered any opposition,trembled upon hearing the Vishnnudutas harsh

command."Who are you?why are you trying to stop us?"they asked."We are the servants of yamaraja,the Lord of death". The agents of Vishnu smiled and spoke in voices as deep as rumbling of rain clouds:"if you are truly the the servants of yamaraja,you must explain to us the meaning of the cycle of life and death.Tell us :who must enter this cycle,and who must not?" The yamadutas replied,"The sun,fire,sky,air,demigods,moon,evening,day,night,the directions,water ,land,and the Super soul or the Lord within the heart,all witness the activities of everyone. The candidates for punishmnet in the cycle of birth and death are those who are confirmed by these witnesses to have deviated from their religoius duties.In Proportion to the extent of one's religious or irreligious actions in this life,one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding reactions of Karma in the next."

To be continued................. Jai Sai Ram