0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,301 Story 04 Arjunacarya 1 00:00:00,302 --> 00:00:04,300 PRABHUPĀDA: Now this Arjunācārya…that’s a very nice story. 2 00:00:04,301 --> 00:00:06,811 When he was writing commentaries, 3 00:00:06,812 --> 00:00:12,763 oh, he thought, “How is that Lord will come Himself and deliver the goods? 4 00:00:12,764 --> 00:00:15,933 Oh, it is not possible. 5 00:00:15,934 --> 00:00:20,494 He might be sending through some agent.” 6 00:00:20,495 --> 00:00:29,705 So he wanted to cut vahāmy aham, “I bear the burden and deliver.” 7 00:00:29,706 --> 00:00:36,845 He wrote in a way that “I send some agent who delivers.” 8 00:00:36,846 --> 00:00:43,578 So that Arjunācārya went to take bath, 9 00:00:43,579 --> 00:00:48,269 and in the meantime two boys, very beautiful boys, 10 00:00:48,270 --> 00:00:54,712 they brought some very nice foodstuff in large quantity. 11 00:00:54,713 --> 00:01:05,015 And in India there is a process to taking two sides burden on the bamboo. 12 00:01:05,016 --> 00:01:08,449 Just like a scale it is balanced. 13 00:01:08,450 --> 00:01:12,446 So these two boys brought some very highly valuable foodstuff 14 00:01:12,447 --> 00:01:15,881 and grains and ghee, 15 00:01:15,882 --> 00:01:18,350 and his wife was there. 16 00:01:18,351 --> 00:01:26,072 And the boys said, “My dear mother, Arjunācārya has sent these goods to you. 17 00:01:26,073 --> 00:01:27,584 Please take delivery.” 18 00:01:27,585 --> 00:01:34,019 And ah… “Oh, you are so nice boy, you are so beautiful boys, and he has given. 19 00:01:34,020 --> 00:01:36,431 And Ācārya is not so cruel. 20 00:01:36,432 --> 00:01:37,211 How is that? 21 00:01:37,212 --> 00:01:41,566 He has given so much burden to you, and he is not kind…?” 22 00:01:41,567 --> 00:01:44,542 “Oh, I was not taking, and just see, he has beaten me. 23 00:01:44,543 --> 00:01:49,207 Here is cane mark; oh, see.” 24 00:01:49,208 --> 00:01:53,010 His wife became very much astonished, that “Ācārya is not so cruel. 25 00:01:53,011 --> 00:01:55,408 How he has become so cruel?” 26 00:01:55,409 --> 00:01:58,197 So she was thinking in that way. 27 00:01:58,198 --> 00:02:00,656 Then “All right, my dear boys; you come on.” 28 00:02:00,657 --> 00:02:02,602 And gave him shelter. 29 00:02:02,603 --> 00:02:06,401 And ah… “No; I shall go because Arjunācārya again comes. 30 00:02:06,402 --> 00:02:07,901 He will chastise us.” 31 00:02:07,902 --> 00:02:10,322 “No, no, you sit down, take foodstuff.” 32 00:02:10,323 --> 00:02:14,120 [She] prepared foodstuff, and then they went away. 33 00:02:14,121 --> 00:02:21,517 And when Arjunācārya came back, then he saw that his wife is eating. 34 00:02:21,518 --> 00:02:27,823 Because it is the system of Indian families that after the husband has taken the food, 35 00:02:27,824 --> 00:02:29,704 the wife will take. 36 00:02:29,705 --> 00:02:32,403 So, they don’t take together. 37 00:02:32,404 --> 00:02:34,137 After the family members— 38 00:02:34,138 --> 00:02:40,052 the boys and the husband is sumptuously fed—then the housewife takes. 39 00:02:40,053 --> 00:02:43,149 So Arjunācārya, “No, you are taking food? 40 00:02:43,150 --> 00:02:44,055 Why is… What is that?” 41 00:02:44,056 --> 00:02:46,232 No. 42 00:02:46,233 --> 00:02:49,852 No! He did not; I am mistaken; sorry, sir. 43 00:02:49,853 --> 00:02:55,203 Wife said, “Ācārya, you have become so much cruel nowadays?” 44 00:02:55,204 --> 00:02:56,752 “Oh, what is that?” 45 00:02:56,753 --> 00:03:01,571 “Two boys, very nice boys, they have brought so many foodstuff. 46 00:03:01,572 --> 00:03:03,721 You loaded on their head, 47 00:03:03,722 --> 00:03:08,513 and they denied to take it, and you have beaten them, chastised? 48 00:03:08,514 --> 00:03:11,687 No; I have never done this; why shall I do it?” 49 00:03:11,688 --> 00:03:15,124 Then she described, “Oh, such a nice beautiful boy.” 50 00:03:15,125 --> 00:03:18,160 Then Arjunācārya understood, 51 00:03:18,161 --> 00:03:25,670 that “Because I wanted that God does not deliver, so He has delivered these goods, 52 00:03:25,671 --> 00:03:32,703 and because I cut these alphabets that He does not give personally, 53 00:03:32,704 --> 00:03:36,580 so He has shown that beating mark.” 54 00:03:36,581 --> 00:03:41,355 There is an incident in southern India of Yāmunācārya. 55 00:03:41,356 --> 00:03:43,281 That story is there, of course, 56 00:03:43,282 --> 00:03:46,254 you may believe or not believe; that’s a different thing. 57 00:03:46,255 --> 00:03:51,686 But here the Lord says that “I personally deliver.” 58 00:03:51,687 --> 00:03:56,537 So, those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, 59 00:03:56,538 --> 00:04:02,293 those who are actually busy in the matter of discharging their duties 60 00:04:02,294 --> 00:04:04,627 as a Kṛṣṇa conscious person, 61 00:04:04,628 --> 00:04:11,666 they may be assured that so far their living condition is concerned, 62 00:04:11,667 --> 00:04:14,862 or their comforts of life is concerned, 63 00:04:14,863 --> 00:04:20,183 that is assured by the Lord; there will be no hampering. 64 00:04:20,184 --> 00:04:27,809 Thank you very much. 65 00:04:27,810 --> 00:04:27,811 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com