Lord
Nrsimhadeva’s mercy
even on
non-devotees.
The mercy of Lord Nrisimhadeva at
Mayapur is famous and I have an interesting
story in brief. I know a couple
Ashok Ghosh and his wife Shila Ghosh from
Kolkata, who married twelve years
ago. Four years before when I met them, they
shared their worries with me.
Like other childless couples, who undertake
treatments or throw faith in
magical amulets, this young couple too were attracted
to artificial means to have a
baby. Incidentally, I suggested them to take shelter of
Jagrata Nrsiimhadeve at ISKCON
Mayapur. In the year 2006, Nrisimha Caturdasi
day, the couple came too Mayapur
and observed the Vrata seriously, approached
the Lord, and paid their sincere
offerings to Him with full surrender.
A year later, when I visited
Calcutta, incidentally I met the couple and found them
extremely happy. To my amazement,
I saw carrying a small baby in the lap. I
enquired who the child was? The
couple narrated to me the blessings of Lord
Nrisimhadeva upon them. This is a
clear example of the Lord’s mercy upon
anyone who takes shelter of Him.
This is an instance, even a non-devotee has
been blessed with His mercy. The
Lord can bless anything to anyone if
surrenders to Him and
incidentally utters His holy name even once.
The ancients performed
putrakameshthi yajna to invoke the divinities and bless
the childless couple to have
progeny. In kaliyuga, we short-lived humans forgot
those tedious Vedic yajnas. In
this disastrous age, surrendering to the God and
uttering His holy names is the
greatest sacrifice one can offer as Lord Caitanya
instructed us through His divine
Grace A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
As the Vishnupurana says, “Ten
years of tapasya in sattya yuga equates to one
year of tapasya in tertayuga, and
it equates to one month of tapas in dvapayuga
and it equates to just one day of
tapasya in kaliyuga. Anyone who surrenders to
the Lord and utters His holy name
even once, the merciful Lord will bless him all
his needs and at the end will
offer him a chance to reach the Supreme Destination even the king of heaven
Indra is ineligible to obtain.
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