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The lion then said to him. The wound caused by you is healed. But the wound your wife had done to me is yet to be healed. i do not know if it will heal at all.”
On having told this tale, Baba said, “Never be in want of anything on earth. Be contented with what Paramatma offers you.” To explain this point, he told us a tale about a poor Brahmin. a Brahmin couple, issueless though they were, lived happily in a cottage. They had some landed property and he used to get it cultivated with the help of labourers. They had cows and hence there was no want of milk. sometimes he got an invitation from the Palace and there he was offered some ‘Dakshina’ (some amount of money, clothes, rice and vegetables by way of offerings) and ‘taijaspatra’. he had a few disciples and some families where he was invited to worship gods and goddesses and to perform religious rites and by doing all these things he also earned some money. so there was no problem except one, which neither of them could express that to the other or to anybody else. Their Guru, by whom they were initiated, told them not to suffer from any want, nor to hanker after anything. They used to live in a happy-go lucky manner. if someone happened to tell them that it would have been better if they had a son of their own, they replied saying that they were all right and that they had neither desires nor any regret about this. But their heart used to make an unheard cry, “We are really unfortunate, we have no son of our own.”
Their cry seemed to have been heard by God. The Brahmin couple had a neighbour named Mahadev a Vaishya by caste. One day Mahadev, almost naked, came running with tearful eyes and said, “Please save me.” The Brahmin said, “What has happened to you?” in reply, Mahadev said to him, “Both of my sons are abusing me. They have struck me hard. see the scar left and see how i am bleeding. They have even taken off my clothes.”
The Brahmin got stunned. he used to be jealous of the Vaishya family as it seemed to be a happy one. how good are their sons! how beautiful are their daughters-in-law! how sweet are their grand-children! The Brahmin asked him, “Why are they abusing you?”
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