A Thief had a darshan of Lord Krishna...

A thief had darshan of LORD KRISHNA 
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A Brahman, whose profession was singing the glories of the Lord, was once reciting Bhagavatha in the house of a patron. A thief broke into the house where the recital was going on and hid himself in the attic. Perforce, he had to listen to Bhagavatha. The singer was describing the ornaments worn by Krishna. He described the various ornaments Yasodha put on Krishna before sending Him out with the cows. The thief thought that he should kill that lad, Krishna and rob all the ornaments at one stroke instead of struggling every day with petty stealing. He waited till the Brahmin finished the story and left the place.The thief wanted to know where this boy was. He, therefore, followed the Brahmin and waylaid him. The Brahmin was frightened and feared that he would lose even the small amount collected as dakshina and told the thief, "I do not have anything with me". The thief told, "I do not want any material from you. I want only some information. You were telling that one lady Yasodha adorned a boy Krishna with ornaments before she sent him for grazing the cows. I want to know where I can find him." The Brahmin was in a fix. Cleverly he told the thief, "There is a book in my house where I keep all these particulars. Come with me." He took the thief to his house, and looked in some book and told, "In Brindavana, on the banks of Yamuna, in a green meadow, two boys will come in the morning. One dark like the cloud with a flute, and the other fair clad in white silk. The dark one will have all the ornaments I had described." The thief believed the story and set out to Brindavana immediately. He located the place, climbed up a tree and waited for the boys. The sun rose. Faint melody of the flute wafted along the morning breeze. The enchanting music could then be heard closer and the thief spotted two boys coming. He got down from the tree and went near them. The moment he saw them, he forgot himself for a moment, folded his hands and shed tears of joy. He wondered which wretched mother had sent these radiant boys, vigrahas chiseled to perfection, loaded with ornaments to the riverbank. Since the thief had carefully listened to the story of Krishna as told by the Brahmin, he noticed that Krishna was not wearing one particular piece of ornament described by the Brahmin. He even wanted to adorn Krishna with the missing ornament, which he wanted to get even by stealing, and enjoy the sight to his heart’s content. Just as the clouds cover the bright sun, wicked thoughts developed in his mind again. He approached the boys to kill them. Shouting, "Stop," he held Krishna’s hand. The moment he touched Krishna all his previous karma was wiped clean and he inquired lovingly, "Who are you?" Krishna told him, "Leave My hands. I am frightened by your looks." The thief told Krishna, "It is my evil mind which is reflected in my face. If you are frightened I shall go away." Krishna then told the thief, "Have you forgotten the purpose for which you have come? Here, take my ornaments." Confused the thief said, "Will not your mother scold you, if you gift away all your ornaments to me?" Krishna smiled and said, "Do not worry about that. I have plenty of them. I am a bigger thief than you. But there is a difference between you and me – however much I steal, the owners do not complain. I am lovingly called "Chitha Chora". Though you are not aware of it, you have a previous ornament in your possession, the "Chitha". I shall steal it now and take the same with Me." So saying both the boys vanished. The thief found to his surprise a bag full of ornaments on his shoulder. He brought it to the Brahmin’s house and told him what had happened. The Brahmin was frightened, took the thief inside and opened the bag. To his utteramazement he saw all the ornaments described as being worn by Krishna in the Bhagavatha, in the thief’s bag. Shedding tears of joy, the Brahmin asked the thief to take him to the place where he saw the dark boy. The thief obliged and both of them waited in the same place where the thief accosted the boy the previous day. Suddenly the thief exclaimed, "Look, here they come!" However, the Brahmin could not see any one. Stricken with remorse, he said, "Swami, when You give Darshan to a thief, why not me? If you do not give Darshan to me, I shall end my life." Krishna then told him, "You are reading Bhagavatha just as another story. The thief on the other hand, believed what you had told him. I manifest only for those who surrender to Me."
Glories to the thief who saw LORD ....Lets leave our chittha to Chittha chora ..Hare krishna..........

7 Wonders of Jagannath Puri

Your kids are taught about 7 wonders of the World. Now let them learn the 7 wonders of the Lord Jagannath Temple in Jagannath Puri !

Hare Krsna.... Check 7 Wonders of Jagannath Temples as follows(keep your scientific brain aside and then read it. Still if you don’t believe this then check yourself in Jagannath Puri) –

1.Flag always flap in opposite direction of air

2.From any place in Puri you will find Sudarshan Charka (Charka at top of Temple) is facing to you only

3.Normally in day air comes from sea to land and at evening opposite way but in Puri it’s totally opposite

4.No bird or planes fly above the Temple

5.The shadow of the main dome is not visible at any time in any direction

6.The quantity of cooked food inside the Temple remains same for entire year. But same prasadam can feed few thousand people and 20 lac people also; still it won’t not get waste or never lag

7.In Jagannath Temple kitchen, 7 pots are kept on each other and cooked on wood fire. In this process top pot get cooked 1st and bottom one last.

After entering from Singhadwara’s first step inside the Temple you can’t hear any voice of ocean and when you cross the same step outside you can hear it. Mostly we can notice this at even time clearly.

Prasadam is cooked by Laxmidevi herself every day; only pure devotees of Lord can see her inside the Temple kitchen.

Hari Hari bol !

Ways to Remember KRISHNA

Ways to Remember Krishna ..

“O son of Kunti [Arjuna], I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.8)

Remembering God really isn’t that difficult. The lotus flower is the smile of Krishna. Just look at it and remember that the Supreme Lord is all-attractive in His original feature. His position is not determined by sectarian sentimentalism. It is not determined by one’s blind faith, either. It is scientifically based, as in He has properties that can be understood through basic tools of perception. Granted, the magnitude of those properties is immeasurable, but through beautiful objects like the lotus flower we get a slight understanding of the transcendental features found exclusively in the origin of matter and spirit.

Lord Krishna’s smile is as beautiful as the lotus flower. It calms the raging mind consumed with worry over the next quarter’s earnings report. It soothes the burning for sense gratification. It eases the worry over following this religious guideline and that. It allows the mind to forget about liberation from birth and death. If you’re seeing Krishna’s smile, why would you care about leaving your present situation?

You can remember Krishna by looking at the dark raincloud. It is of the precise complexion of Krishna’s body. And that body is the most beautiful. The complexion of the Supreme Lord’s original form was not concocted by Vedic scholars and writers. They merely jotted down what they saw. We have never seen anyone with the shyama complexion, so the description seems like mythology. But we can look at the dark raincloud or the tamala tree and understand immediately how beautiful Krishna’s complexion is. We can also understand that His body is real.

By looking at the tree we can remember Krishna. In Vrindavana it gives shade to both He and His close friends. The tree also produces the flute that Krishna enjoys playing. Thus through a simple object from nature, an object that we may see so many of in the course of our commute to work each morning, we can remember God.

As Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, He is the taste of water. Who doesn’t drink water? Even if you drink something else, originally that liquid is based in water. Therefore everyone can remember Krishna every day simply in their consumption of liquids. Though it’s very easy to forget Him, the ways to remember Him are many as well. The ways to remember are kindly taught by the merciful spiritual masters, who represent Krishna’s interests in this world. Through their instruction, either written or spoken, one can learn the art themselves and apply it to achieve the highest end.

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