Hari Om Parents,
So far, we had seen and absorbed the bhaktis of following devotees:
-Narada Muni
-Sanatkumaras
-Prahlada
-Dhruva
-Bali
This week it was the next Bhagavata (devotee of the Lord) JadaBharatar.
We all take birth due to our prarabdha and based on that lord gives us responsibilities towards the society and it is our duty to fulfill them.
Along with performing these duties and offering it to him, there comes a phase in life when we need to move away from these responsibilities and immerse ourselves in the lord. I
If we keep on clinging to the product, then it will lead to attachment, and it will not make us realize God. This is what happened to JadaBharatar.
King Bharata was a good and noble king and fulfilled all his responsibilities very diligently. He retired to the forest to meditate upon God. He was completely immersed in the thoughts of the Lord.
But then one day a strange thing happened which turned Bharata away from the Lord.
A deer, protecting its baby a fawn, was running away from a lion and trying to escape from it. But, while Bharata was performing his rituals in the river, the deer ran in front of him and dropped its baby on a leaf that was floating in the river. The deer was not able to save its baby, and it ran away. The baby deer came floating to Bharata. Bharata took it in his hands and carefully nurtured it. It was so small while it came to him.
But will it remain small for its entire lifetime? It grew big enough.
But Bharata's life turned upside down after he found the deer. The man who kept on thinking about the Lord, slowly started to forget Him and kept on thinking about the deer. Even though the deer was now big enough to take care of itself, Bharata kept on worrying about the deer. This worries made him forget about the Lord. And at last, the time came for Bharata to depart from the world, but he kept on thinking about the deer.
As a result, in the next birth, Bharata was born as a deer. This shows that at the last moment in life, whatever our thoughts are, we/it materializes in our next birth. He kept on wandering in the woods while one day he came to ashram of a sage. Once the deer heard about the glories of the Lord, he started remembering his previous births.
The story is not yet completed. We will see how Bharata reached the Lord in the next class.
Although Bharatha, did a good thing by saving the baby deer, he got so entangles in the attachment that he was unable to reach lord.
With Gurudev's Blessings,
Saratha Arthanari
Malathy Balasubramanian.
