Long ago there was a very pious family on the banks of the Krishna river.
It had vast landed estates. The parents had an only son who was well-versed in
scriptures and who was obedient and well behaved. But when the father died and
the properties fell into his hand the son became a profligate and a libertine,
with a gang of evil men always around him. He developed intimacy with a public
woman and was so infatuated with her wiles that he swam across a flooded river,
holding on to the corpse of his own wife who had earlier committed suicide in
despair. He mistook the corpse for a log of wood floating down the stream.
Suddenly he became aware of his plight; he blamed his eyes for leading
him astray into sin; he blinded himself as a punishment and roamed about the
holy land associated with the advent of the Lord as Krishna, singing His name.
That blind singer was Suurdas. With the name on the lip and the picture of the
glory on the mind, on evil can attract you. Repentance purifies, contrition
cleanses. Krishna appeared before blind Suurdas and offered to restore his
sight. But, Suurdas pleaded for inner vision and discarded the outward-bound
eyesight.
God is no stony-hearted despot. He is compassion. He is grace,
personified. Once you have cleansed yourself by tears, he draws you near and
grants you consolation and courage. Without a cleansed heart, realisation is
impossible. Wisdom can enter only a purified mind. Saadhana - slow and steady -
can succeed in purifying it. Victory is yours if you model yourselves on
Arjuna, and his yearning.
- taken from Swami's Krishnastami Discourse on 31st August 1972.
Sai Ram
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