Shree Gurubhyonamah
[This is a DEVOTIONAL story. This is not my story and this is not a story I created but is taken from Maharshi Vyasa's Srimad Bhagavata Purana. I am somehow influenced by this story because this is so much relevant to the current age and current generation of people. It has few current realities that were foretold when this Purana was written and I thought it's a good idea to put this story as a blog post. Before I start, this story need not be treated as a story told for a religion but to be treated as story needed for every human being who trust in God in any form/religion. Heaven and hell are 2 common things found in most of the religious practices. It has few things to learn for people who do not trust in God as well. Also this story has few sections that praise Lord Vishnu and encourage others to do it. It's up to you if you do not want to read those. You can take that as part of story.I am going to refer to few Telugu poems from the Telugu version of Srimad Bhagavata written by the great writer Sri Pothana. The reason being they are such wonderful verses and I will try to translate the same to English without losing the essence. I am grateful to my guru because of whom I came to know this story. Any mistakes in the story are because of my ignorance. DON'T MISS THE OBSERVATIONS & LEARNINGS AT THE END OF THE STORY.]
Once upon a time, there lived a Brahmin named Ajaameela in a city called Kanyaakubja. He is a sinner, thief, ignorant of meaning of life, follower of ill practices, gambler, fighter and a drunkard. In the rage of adolescence, he married a prostitute and had 10 sons with her. He spent time with her and the kids, in the ocean of family world. He became old, his black hair turned white, organs lost control, his head started to shiver, and his sight got poor, got asthama, lost teeth, cough and his mind lost control. Totally, he is close to death in no time. He turned 88 and had lots of love towards his last son named Narayana.
He was on his death bed and his sight was towards his last son who was playing few meters away from him. He uttered Narayana thinking about his son when he saw the messengers of the Hell. They were huge, black, spitting fire because of anger, inflated lips, bad shaped faces and cruel eyes. They had thick lengthy ropes and knives in their hands, ready to separate the life out of Ajaameela. He was scared and half dead seeing them. And then in that fear,
దూరమున వాడు బాలుడు | He saw his son playing at the distance and whom
బోరన దన చిత్త సీమ పొడగట్టిననో |He loved a lot and called him by his name
నారాయణ ! నారాయణ! |Narayana, Narayana
నారాయణ! ననచునాత్మ నన్దనునొడినెన్ |Narayana (called him 3 times)
On hearing the word Narayana, told 3 times during his death, the messengers of Lord Vishnu who were roaming around, stopped the ugly acts of the messengers of the hell. They stopped those messengers of hell who were trying to grab the soul from Ajaameela and forced them away.
The messengers of the Hell asked the messengers of Lord Vishnu, "Dear great souls, Whom do you belong to? If you stop doing our work like this, the death ropes of the king of the Hell, Lord Yama, will turn out to be fun to the humans. You look handsome, are you from the sky? Are you gods? Your eyes look like a blossomed lotus, you wore silk clothes and you look bright with jewelry all over your body. You have 4 shoulders and seem to be ever youth. You have bow & arrows, lotus, conch, sword, mace in your hands and your peaceful body is so surprising to this world. Why did you stop us from carrying out the orders of the Lord of all axioms?"Then the Govinda's messengers said "Ohh, are you the servers of Lord Yama? Then can you please tell us the qualities of holiness and structure of sins? Who is punishable and who is not? What is this person's story? In this universe, are all the living beings punishable or just the sinners?"
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…….. [Watch out for Part 2 to see the reply of messengers of the Hell and rest of the story]
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