The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 4.4. Swami Krishnananda

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#Sutlej River in Punjab
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25/04/2020
The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita

Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 4.

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*Now this is another miracle which we will not be able to understand, and because we cannot understand, we cannot appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. She had bolted the door from inside, and was weeping. Again there was another knock, two knocks, three knocks. 

#When she opened the door, it was Sri Krishna standing there. Sri Krishna said, “I am hungry. I want some food.”

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*Draupadi said, “I am crying with sorrow. Don’t come and taunt and tease me at this moment. I have now a need for help from people like you.”

*“Now don’t talk of help and all that. Give me some food,” Krishna said.

*“Food? Where is the food?” she asked. “My vessel is empty.”

*“No, your vessel is not empty. There is some food in it. Bring the vessel,” said Krishna.

#Draupadi brought the empty vessel. It so happened there was a little leaf of vegetable sticking to it, which she had not washed properly. Krishna ate a piece of that little leaf. 

##“Let the Universal be satisfied,” he said, and then he vanished. Where he went, nobody knows. He was not there afterwards.

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Now, the interesting part of the story is what happened to these disciples and the Guru taking a bath in the river, who were expected back for lunch? 

One hour passed, two hours passed, three hours passed, and they did not come. Yudhisthira, the good man, thought they may be annoyed or that something is wrong. 

He sent Bhima. “Please go and find out what has happened, why they are not coming.” When they saw Bhima, they ran from there. The more he called them, the more they ran. What was the matter? Why did they run? Because when they were taking a bath, they felt their stomachs bloating with satisfaction as if they had eaten food up to the nose. They said, “Now if we go back and he serves a meal, how will we eat? It will be a disrespect that we don’t eat, so we will go from here.” And when that man called them, they all bolted away.

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To be continued ...

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