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From: Ajeet K Mall [mailto:ajeetmall@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:42 PM
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Subject: FW:[Spiritual-Group] When will lord Krishna come to us


From: "Anjani Kumar" <kumaran@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Spiritual-Group] When will lord Krishna come to us
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:19:31 -0600

A certain Swamiji gave an illustration. It is an illustration involving
the ordinary day-to-day life of a householder but, nonetheless, there is
something very impressive about this illustration. In a town in Bengal,
there was a man who worked in an office. He lived with his wife and two
children. One of the children was only three or four months old and the
other was seven years old. One day, the man told his wife, "You will
have to prepare breakfast early today because I have to go into the
office early. After I eat, I shall leave right away." When the wife went
to cook, she first put the baby on the bed and then went into the
kitchen. But, whenever she would enter the kitchen, the child would cry.
She thought, "With the child in my lap, how will I be able to cook? It
is very difficult." She was thinking what she should do. Then she
thought of a way she could manage. She called the seven-year-old child.
"Darling, come here!" she called. "Do you know that red toy in the
shop?"
"Yes, I know it," the child answered.
"Go and buy that toy, but be sure that it makes a nice jingling sound."
The child took some money and went off to buy the toy. He brought it
home and gave it to the mother. The mother laid the baby down on the bed
and hung the red-colored toy with the jingling sound above him, at the
end of a rope. The baby saw the toy and immediately started to play with
it, hitting it from side to side. The child was most delighted as he
continued to slap the toy and hear the jingling sound. For one hour he
played like that, and the mother went to do her cooking. After that, the
child started to feel hungry. For the entire time that the child was
playing, he did not remember his mother. But, now that he felt hungry,
he thought, "Oh, where is my mother?" But his mother did not come. Then,
he started crying, signifying, "I am hungry! Come!" He could not speak,
so he beckoned his mother by crying. "Come to me and suckle me! I am
hungry!" His mother, however, was busy cooking. "No," she thought, "let
the child cry."
After some time, the child stopped crying and went back to playing with
the toy---jingle, jingle, jingle. After playing like that for a while,
the pangs of hunger returned. His hunger increased and increased and he
became more and more unhappy. He began to cry for his mother even more
loudly than before.
His mother heard the crying of the baby, but thought that she should
first finish her cooking.
Finally, the hunger became unbearable for the child. The child thought,
"I don't want toys!" All he could think about was his mother.
His crying became louder and louder until he was screaming. He started
to throw his arms about and kick his legs, in a tantrum.
Then the mother thought, "Oh, I cannot stay away any longer!" The mother
ran toward the child, embraced him and suckled him.

Like this, the Supreme Lord has given us toys---the toy of a wife or
husband, toys of children, toys of buildings, toys of radios, toys of
videos, toys of computers. Seeing this, Krsna thinks, "They are absorbed
in their toys! I have no worries. I am engaged in My pastimes in the
transcendental realm. They do not want this. They want those things
instead. Here, take this computer! Take that video! Take this! Take
that!"

Upon the awakening of his real self (atma), a man feels the want of the
sweetest affection of the Supreme Lord. He cries, "Oh Supreme Lord! In
this world, nothing gives me happiness. Everything is temporary.
Everyone is selfish. You are my most beloved! Where are You? I have
forgotten You! Come! Come! I am in a furnace! Come! Come!" Weeping, he
calls, but Krsna does not come. "I am engaged in My pastimes," Krsna
says. For some time, the man then becomes absorbed in the affairs of his
family and relatives, and forgets Krsna. Time passes and he cries again,
"Where is My beloved Supreme Lord? Where is He?" Crying, crying. But,
the Supreme Lord still does not come. Ultimately, he shouts, "I do not
want a house! I do not want anything! Nobody is mine---You are mine! Oh
beloved Supreme Lord! Come! Come! Come!" He cries and weeps, tossing his
arms and legs about. Then Krsna cries, "Oh!" and comes to him. This sort
of perturbation of the heart, extreme eagerness for getting Bhagavan,
must be there.

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