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Dear Sri Deepak,

I think the story goes thus. 

In this shloka, the Lord says "aham vahAmi" - that 
is, "I bear", rather than using another verb, for 
taking care of this world and its beings. The 
brahmin trusted this completely and was dependent 
on the Lord for everything. However, his household 
was in disarray due to lack of funds and one day 
his wife told him "Of what use is your trust? The
Lord is not taking care of us".

The brahmin was vexed and he struck out the 
phrase "vahAmyaham" with charcoal in his sahasranamam
text that he read every day and left the house.

While he was gone, the Lord appeared in the form
of the brahmin himself carrying bags of food items
on His back and delivered them at the house.

Upon his return, the brahmin was surprised to see
all the bags in the house and aksed his wife about
it. Perplexed, she asked him "Did you not bring in 
the bags yourself a little while ago?"

The brahmin realized what had happened and quickly
ran over to his Sahasranamam text. When he looked
at this shloka, he saw that the charcoal mark had
been erased and had been replaced by a turmeric
mark over the same phrase.

He then fell to his feet and with tears in his eyes
sang the praise of the Lord - for had He not literally
born ("vahAmi") the brahmin's load on His back.

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan


--- Deepak Vinod <deepak.vinod@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Namo Narayana,
> 
> "ananyaschintayanta mam ye janah paryupasate 
> tesham nityabhiyuktanam yogakshemam vahamyaham"
> 
> 
> Does anyone remember the true story of a brahmana who was
> once crossed out
> this verse from Shri Gita because he believed in it all
> his life and in the
> end thought it was NOT true.
> 
> Dasanudas
> Deepak
> 


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