MERCY I

Yesterday evening... as the moon was approaching the skies... the spirits like me... felt the spiritual goals approaching us.. THE GOAL TO GO BACK TO GODHEAD.

...Suddenly, i remembered a BEAUTIFUL pastime of the lord.. probably the most heart touching....

ONE DAY-

Shri chaitanya mahaprabhu instructed Sri Nityananda prabhu and Haridas Thakur(Devoted devotees) to knock at everydoor and instruct the people to chant the name of the lord. Nityananda prabhu and Haridas Thakur who were preaching partners walked with this responsibility on there heads.

Nityananda prabhu used to knock every door, doorstep after doorstep after doorstep and used to fall at the feet of the owners of the house. He cried and prayed them to chant the holy name of the god to sing his glories. Some people behind the doors were envious, puffed up with nonsense, lusty and enrolled in materialistic pleasures who never got a chance in the sankirtan of shri chaitanya mahaprabhu also used sweard with filthy words at him, blasphemed him, whipped him, and even kicked him...

but the most merciful Nityananda prabhu would come on his hands and feet and with 5 drops of tears... 5 streams of tears from his ocean like eyes... would beg them to chant hari's name... saying "I would sell myself to you as an eternal slave of yours if you engage yourself in krsna's devotion."

One day Haridas Thakur and shri Nityananda prabhu who were preaching partners while walking through a street of a village saw a huge crowd. They exclaimed "What this? what is going on?". Some villager replied "Look inside... there are two dacoits... by the name Jagai and Madhai." Another villager added in an exaggerated manner"Do you know who they are? previously they were pious brahmanas born in a brahmin family. But due to bad association now they slaughter animals, eat their flesh, drink their blood, they set houses on fire, they kill babies. They destroy the sacrificial fire by dropping abdominal substances into it, they are always intoxicated with liquor. They have all sorts of illicit sexual relationships. There is no one more filthy and more fallen than these two. They are the two dacoits. People fear to go near them because they can kill you. Even if they step on someone's shadow that person would jump into Ganga(holy river ... eternally originated from the lotus feet of Lord Krishna) to purify himself. Such are they. Now they are famous as being dacoits in Nabadweep. "

As soon as nityananda prabhu, the embodiment of compassion, heard this, his eyes dialated. And in ecstatic mood he exclaimed "THEY ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF GAURANGA'S MERCY". He said ''Haridas do you see this?... do you see this?. Only if they become devotees... the whole Nabadweep will recognize Shri Chaitanya mahaprabhu as the deliverer of the most fallen. They will take the shelter of Gauranga. Now if people even step on their shadows they jump into the Ganga. O Haridas, Just think if we simply make them devotees people will come to take darshan of them as if they are Ganga personified. " He further says" Haridas, do you remember when the mughals whipped you in 22 market places... you were the one to pray for them...

Please pray O Haridas! THAT-THE-TWO-DACOITS-JAGAI-AND-MADHAI-BE-THE-RECIPIENTS-OF-SHRI CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU'S-MERCY''

Want to know what happened further...?

To be continued...

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LORD SHRI CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU, SHRI NITYANANDA PRABHU AND ALL OTHERS ENJOYING THE KIRTAN IN THE STREETS OF VILLAGE. (KIRTAN- WHEN THE SOUL SINGS)...

source: ISKCON

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