Here is a beautiful story which says about the method of worship of the lord.
Once there was a brahmin practitioner,he was handsome and good looking.
He lived near a river. After his fathers death, he got spoiled and got deviated from his path. In couple of months he got in to all vices and finally he was lead to a woman, named Chintamani. She lived on the other side of the river. She was very beautiful and a nice singer. All the day he lived with her.
Ater a year when his dad's death anniversary came, he had to do all the rituals and couldnot visit that woman. Though he was doing the rituals his mind was with her, thinking of her beauty. He was living virtually with her. After the rituals, at night he couldn't resist himself and walked towards the river to visit her, inspite of people trying to stop him. It was raining heavily. He got hold of something that appeared like a log of wood to him, but had some kind of cloth around the log. With the help of the log he reached the other side and came to her home. There were no lamps, yet he didn't want to go back. He saw some kind of soft rope hanging and with that help he jumped inside and called her out. On seeing him, the woman shocked, lit the lamps and saw a snake coiled up. That snake was the one he thought as a soft rope and the log of wood in the river was a body of a woman. With the curiosity inside, he couldn't smell the foul smell of the body nor the snake, he was totally blinded. she scolded him saying, had he done the same for God, he would have appeared for him. The body which he was attracted would perish soon and wont be there forever. Her wisdom words struck him and all his mind blocks opened up.
He left everything and he became a sadhu. He went to ashram and learned things but he made Chintamani his guru, who opened his mind and showed the reality and started to worship her inside the heart. But as the impure thoughts teased him again he found another girl, who was the wife of somebody. On observing this behavior of his, he got badly hurt of his own habit to getting attracted to beauty.He pierced the eyes with thorns in front of that lady and went in search of God, street to street. He used to sing songs of krishna.
Finally the lord Krishna took him to brindavan. Through his devotion he won the heart of lord.
The story is may be a symbolic. but We should take our eyes off from the external things fully and shift the focus within. He worked on his problem, deliberately pushing himself away from the external beauty. Chinta is worry, but he was so attracted to her that he couldn't see anything at all .
What we understand from this story is that if we worship God, UNINTERRUPTED( ANNANYA), continously, he would certainly come infront of us.we can find him. Uninterrupted perpetual true devotion, love towards the lord, aspiration towards him, would certainly help us to realize him.
nice story..
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