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VRINDAVAN DIARY 2014 - PART 6
By Sacinandana Swami
Krishna Never Leaves Vrindavan
When one lives in Vrindavan, one is constantlyreminded of
Krishna. He is worshiped in the manytemples there, devotees glorify
Him in song andnarrations (katha), sadhus and saints describeHim
with affection, etc.
But does He ever appear in person and makeHimself visible to the
eyes of those who soardently worship Him? Is He only adored
butremains invisible or does He actually engage ina tangible
relationship with His worshippers? Can
they hear Him with their ears, touch Him with their hands, eat
the food He offers them and evensmell His fragrance? These
questions have held my interest for such a long time because I wish
toworship a God with whom I can have an experience having become
tired of the innumerablereligious concepts and mental
concoctions.
In this entry of my Vrindavan Diary I wish to recount a case
when Krishna appeared in person toone of His devotees some 5 years
ago in the village of Aniyor. I heard about this amazing
pastimefrom Krishna Murari Goswami who had heard it from his
relatives who still live in this little village atthe side of
Govardhana Hill. They spoke to a person to whom Krishna had
appeared in person!
Five years ago there was a terrible monsoon. Water poured from
the sky as if the end of the worldhad come. Soon the small lanes
where turned into torrents of waters, which created a lot of
troublefor both men and animals. Especially affected were the
free-roaming cows who soon began towander throughout the village,
desperately in search for shelter to take from the
devastatingrainfall.
One sadhu whom the villagers called Baba, felt the obvious
distress of the cows very deeply anddecided to put his own bhajan
(spiritual practice) aside in order to help the cows. Baba
thought:Five thousand years ago Krishna had helped the cows in an
even more difficult situation by liftingthe Hill Giriraja and held
it up like a huge umbrella...Something quick needed to be done
becausethe cows were in a similar situation as they had been at
that time.
Baba worked day and night for two days getting help from whoever
had a free hand to give and atthe end he had constructed a simple
rain-shelter large enough to accommodate the cows of Aniyorand thus
he gathered them under the roof of his makeshift goshala
(cow-ashram). Exhausted hewent to sleep together with the cows. But
soon he woke up and could not fall asleep again because of hunger.
He had worked so hard that for 48 hours he had found no time
whatsoever toeat.
At around midnight he saw a little boy entering the cowshed. He
had a bowl of laddhus with himand sweetly offered them to Baba:
Here, eat these laddhus you must be hungry. In the morningI will
collect my bowl. And by the way, you may need this too With these
words he handed Babaa stick for cow-herding and quickly left.
Everything happened in the dark and ever so quickly.
The next morning, there was a big commotion in the village. The
priests of the temple on top of the
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Giriraj mountain had ordered a search of the whole village. That
night a thief had entered thetemple and had stolen Nathajis (the
name of the local Krishna deity) silver bowl and His
cowherdstick.
When Baba heard about this he immediately went to the cowshed
and inspected the bowl and stickin the bright daylight. There was
little doubt they matched exactly the descriptions the priests
hadgiven. Could it be that the Lord had personally appeared before
Baba, fed him laddhus and providedhim with a cowherd stick just to
acknowledge the seva which he had done to protect the cows?
Baba decided to find out for sure but without taking the risk of
becoming famous as someonefavoured by the Lord. Thus, he went to
the chief priest with the silver bowl and the golden stick inhand
and told him that a boy had visited him at night and deposited
these items, saying he wouldreturn to collect them sometime
later.
When the priest inspected the bowl and the stick he immediately
recognized them as the belongingsof Sri Nathaji and thanked Baba
for returning the lost items of the Lord.
Baba must have smiled in ecstasy thinking: If you only knew that
the thief was the One youworship upon your altar!Later Baba
revealed the entire story to a relative of Krishna Murari Goswami
and that is how I cameto know of it.
Vrindavan abounds with such stories. Stories in which Krishna
touches the human dimension justlike when He came down from the
altar to play marbles with the village boys, etc.
Anywhere else one might be inclined to discuss such stories as
imaginative but here in Vrindavanwhere Krishna seems to be standing
just around the corner, the supernatural becomes totallynatural a
part of life.The reason is given in the sacred scriptures:
krishno nyo yadu-sambhutoyah purnah so sty atah parahvrindavanam
parityajyasa kvacin naiva gacchati
The Krishna known as Yadu-kumara is Vasudeva Krishna. He is
different from the Krishna who isthe son of Nanda Maharaja.
Yadu-kumara Krishna manifests His pastimes in the cities of
Mathuraand Dvaraka, but Krishna the son of Nanda Maharaja never at
any time leaves Vrindavana. (CCAntya 1.67)
Srila Rupa Goswami writes this about Krishna:
O Lord who rises in the hearts of Your devotees. You became
deeply concerned when You saw Yourdevotees and the cows troubled by
the terrible rainclouds sent by Indra. Thus you lifted the
greatGovardhana Hill with Your left lotus hand.O Lord who protected
Vraja, O lotus eyed Lord, please please protect me in the same
way.(Sri Mukunda-muktavali 4)
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