By A v y a n g a D a s
Hare Krishna to you all devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisance,
All glories to Sri Guru & Sri Gauranga,
I am taking an opportunity to share an incident that happened to one of our devotees today. I feel that sharing such experiences strengthen our faith in Lord Krishna and also prove our intimate relation with Him…
It was the auspicious day of Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi, a special day for Madhava (name has been changed on request) and all vaisnava devotees who engage in spiritual services for the pleasure of their Gurus to get mercy of Sri Sri Radha Krishna. Like all other devotees, Madhava was observing total fasting (nirjala fasting) on this day. He spent the major part of the day in best of his moods, serving deities, chanting and reading Prabhupada's vani. It was evening when he started to think about leaving his office for the day and visiting Iskcon temple on the way back home. "When there is a desire (spiritual), goal is not far…"
After winding up for the day he reached Iskcon temple in late evening and had darshans of the presiding deities. He was very happy to enjoy the bliss of his beloved lord who made his visit possible. He started to enjoy ecstatic kirtan and vaisnava bhajans in the temple room. Unaware of hunger and thirst all devotees were enthusiastically participating in kirtan and dance in front of the deities which made him feel immense satisfaction. His desire of visit temple, despite of his busy schedule was fulfilled by the mercy of vaisnavas.
After spending good time at temple he decided to get back home. On his way to temple gate he caught attracted towards a beautiful picture of his Guru Maharaj holding a beautiful deity of Lord Krishna. It was a small size poster pasted on a wall near book shop. This picture was highly appealing, which made him stand for a while and appreciate transcendental glow on the face of his Guru Maharaj (H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj). He shared a few words of compliment for the pictures with one of his devotee friends standing nearby. He desired to have same picture, little bigger in size to be framed and hung on a wall in his house. With this thought he left for his home.
Next morning, after daily worship he thanked his Guru Maharaj for blessing him with energy to complete fasting. After he had his break-fast he reached his office and started his routine job. Around 11:00 a.m. he received a call from one of his colleague who is also a follower of Mahaprabhu's mission (Iskcon). She wanted to meet him urgently and discuss about something. He went downstairs to meet her, where he found her waiting for him with another friend. They had something placed on the table, which was covered with a paper. After meeting, they handed over that covered object to him and said "It is a surprise spiritual gift for you. We were planning to gift you something for long but today we found a thing which is eye-catching". Madhava was hesitant but he had to accept this gift from these devotee friends.
After he unwrapped the gift, we was stunned for a while and had nothing to say but to accept it readily without any hesitation because it was the same picture of his Guru Maharaj, which he admired the previous day and wished to have one placed in his house. He was overwhelmed to experience that his Gurudeva took no time in fulfilling his spiritual desire. This picture was much bigger in size than the one he saw and also beautifully framed. What else he wanted except this in his life (like a blind man got eye-sight).
chakhu-dan dilo jei, janme janme prabhu sei
divya-jnan hride prokashito
prema-bhakti jaha hoite, avidya vinasha jate
vede gay jahara chariot
(Meaning: He (Guru Maharaj) opens my darkened eyes and fills my heart with transcendental knowledge. He is my Lord birth after birth. From him ecstatic prema emanates; by him ignorance is destroyed. The Vedic scriptures sing of his character.)
He thanked his friends many times and came back to his cabin with this transcendental picture in his hands and few drops in his eyes. He was simple moved by the causeless mercy showered by his Guru Maharaj. He paid many heartiest obeisances to his spiritual master and said "My beloved Gurudeva, you listen to your disciple's unspoken desires...you are the best!!!"
This transcendental incident added another milestone to his faith on his surrender to his spiritual master towards the journey back home – back to godhead.
Jai Srila Prabhupada… Jai Srila Bhagvatpada…
Above was a small effort to explain the experience. I fall short with words to explain such an incident. Please forgive me for my errors.
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