A man by the name of Amrita, living on earth, thought to himself that the one thing he feared most was death.
To avoid death, Amrita practised austerities and concentrated his mind upon Lord Yama, the Lord of Death.
Lord Yama was pleased and granted a vision to Amrita.
Lord Yama said: “My presence is only available to those who are about to die or already dead. Yet I granted you my vision while you are still living, pleased by your penances”.
Amrita said: “I ask this favour of you. If death is inevitable, I ask that if I am to die,
then at least send me a letter before death so that I can make proper provision for my family before departure and also prepere myself for my next life with proper sadhana and worship of Krishna”
Lord Yama said, “Sure, I shall certainly do this. But as soon as you get the
message, please set about making the preparations.”, and he disappeared.
Many years passed after this. Amritas hair began gradually to turn grey, but he was living a life full of sinful activities with not a thought about the fear of death
He was pleased that so far no letters
had arrived from the Lord of Death. Some Vaishnavas approached him and advised him to take to devotional service. He did not heed to their instructions as he thought so much time was left.
Some more years passed by. By this time Amrita had lost most of his teeth and the
devotees came again to warn him about his imminent death. Still he did not bother because no letter has come from his friend Yama.
As the years rolled by, Amritas eyesight became dimmer. However he continued his sensual life thanking his friend Yamaraj for not sending any
letter so far.
Some more years passed by. Amrita was now a very old man and with his back bent forward, he could not walk without the support of a walking stick. His skin was all wrinkled. One day he suffered a stroke and became paralysed. People said his condition was very
critical.
But Amrita was still in a happy frame of mind, since he did not receive any letter from Yamaraj.
Then his destined end of life came and Lord Yama, the god of death, entered the room.
Amrita was startled and his mind was seized with fear.
Yamaraj said, “My friend,
come now, you have suffered greatly.
Today I have come to take you with me.”
Amrita trembled in fear and said, ” My friend, you have betrayed me by breaking your boon. You have not sent me any letter as you promised. Now all of a sudden you are taking me from this world.
You are a cheater”.
Lord Yama said, “Amrita! You spent all your life in sense indulgence with no interest in spiritual life. How then could you know the letters I sent you? Not one, but four letters I did send to you. But you ignored all of them.”
Amrita was greatly puzzled:
“Four letters did you send? But not even one letter reached me. It is just possible that the postman/courier forgot to deliver it.”.
Lord Yama said, “My friend, do you think I will take a paper and pen and write a letter to you?
No, With your body as paper, with the pen of
bodily changes I wrote my letters and time is the messenger who delivered those letters.
1) Years ago, your hair turned grey. That was my first letter. You ignored it.
2) Falling of your teeth was my second letter.
3) My third letter was sent to you when your eyesight failed.
4) The fourth message was when your body became paralysed.
You comfortably ignored all these letters. Now I have come not as your friend but as the dispenser of the Laws of God.”, and Yamaraj tied the rope around Amrita’s neck and pulled it hard.
People around Amrita said,
“Amrita is now dead”.
Moral of the story:
So when the body is young and hale and when we don’t get any letter from Yamaraj, we should start our preparations for facing his lethal blow.
When we completely ignore his letters, then we come under his control.
Different people are
afraid of different things in life and one person’s object of fear is not an object of fear for another person.
However in general, fear of death is common to all. Some people may boast that they are not scared of death.
However when they get some fatal disease which
paralyse them or in case of dangers, the fear of death will be clearly visible in their eyes.
There is no material solution to this attack of Yamaraj and his punishments after death.
Though death is formidable and unconquerable, Sripada Sankaracharya, one of the great acharyas
of the Vedantic tradition, gives a very simple solution to avoid interview with Yamaraj.
In his famous work “Bhaja Govindam” appears the following sloka.
“If a person reads little of Bhagavad Gita, takes a little drop of Ganges water and performs worship to Murari (Sri Krishna) atleast once in his lifetime, then he does not have to face an interview with Yamaraj.”
In the Bhagavata Purana (6.3.29), Yamaraj himself identifies
who are the candidates for his punishment.
jihvaa na vakti bhagavad-guna-naamadheyam
cetas ca na smarati tac-caranaaravindam
krishnaya no namati yac-chira ekadapi
taan aanayadhvam asato ‘krita-vishnu-krityaan
“My dear servants, please bring to me only those sinful persons who
do not use their tongues to chant the holy name and qualities of Krishna, whose hearts do not remember the lotus feet of Krishna even once, and whose heads do not bow down even once before Lord Krishna. Send me those who do not perform their duties toward Vishnu, which are the
only duties in human life. Please bring me all such fools and rascals.”
Srila Prabhupada’s program of chanting and hearing and offering obeisances to the Supreme Lord will empower us to escape the punishment of Yamaraj who is otherwise unconquerable.
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
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To protect our Bharathvarsh from this Pandemic we are planning to do a MAHA MAHA YAGNA to invoke the protection for each and every citizen of India
This Maha yagna will take place for 48 days , the best pundits from across Bharath will take part in this
The Yagnas ( havans) will be
Rig Veda - 9 days
Yajur Veda - 9 days
Atharva Veda - 4 days
Sama Veda - 4 days (no havan only parayana)
Athi Rudram - 12 days
Other yagnas - 10 days
Total 48 days , one mandala
We are working out the details with experts, seeking your inputs 🙏🙏
This PPE kit costs just Rs 550 , A Dr wears this and visits around 100 patients a day. These days Dr address patients only through Video calls. But each patient in the ward is charged Rs 1000 /day towards PPE kit for Doctor. Ie hospital charges
Rs 1000 X 100 patients =Rs 1 lakh
PPE Kit cost Rs 550
Amount collected from all patients / day Rs 100000
If a patient stays in a hospital for 10 days he is charged Rs 1000x 10 = Rs 10000 towards Drs PPE kit alone and this is not covered under insurance
One Ekadasi day, Tuka was performing kirtans and Shivaji was listening to it with love.
In the meantime Muslim soldiers heard about the whereabouts of Shivaji and a big troop of 2000 soldiers came to arrest him.
They surrounded the house in which bhajans were performed and
dint let anyone go in or come out of the house.
Shivajis informers came and whispered about the situation to him.
Hearing this Shivaji was worried and one of his bodyguards asked Tukaram if they could leave now.
Tukaram then told him that no one should leave till the
kirtan is over.
Hearing this Shivaji sat down and continued to listen to the abhangs.
He thought to himself that none other than Vitthal can save him now and if he doesn’t, he would be fortunate to die on an ekadasi day listening to abhangs and in the company of sadhus and
Hanumanji always wanted to serve his Prabhu Lord Sri Rama.
One day when Sita Matha was entering into Rama’s room, Hanumanji also followed her.
Then Lord Rama said that he cannot enter into the room.
Hanumanji said that when Sita Matha can enter into the room,
why can’t he enter the room.
He is having such an innocent devotional service towards Lord Rama. Just to convince Hanumanji.
Rama said that Sita is having a sindhur on her forehead, so she can enter the room.
After hearing that, Hanumanji came out and thought for a while.
Then Hanumanji concluded that sindhur is the qualification required to enter into Lord Rama’s bedroom.
So he decided to ask more about this sindhur to Sita Matha. Next day when Sita was in the dressing table, she was trying to keep sindhur, there came Hanumanji.