Story of a boy away from home

A rich person had a son, and he used to take care of his son very nicely. But, the child some how felt that he should leave his home, and left. After leaving home, he could not find anyone to talk. At last, one of the old servants of his father saw him, and took to his house. Eventhough that person is a servant, he behaves as an enemy of everyone. He gives all difficulties to everyone whomever he can give. He neither allow anyone to his house nor anyone to go outside except on his birthday. That's why, everyone used to stay away from him.

After taking to his home, that servant made the child as a slave, and used to give too much work, which a person cannot bare. The child became too busy, and he could not think anything else. All sufferings came to him. He did not get even time to think that, his life was just waste.

Eventhough that servant was very bad, there was one good quality in him. That was, on his every birthday, he used to free all the people under him for that day. On that day, no one works in their house, only enjoyment. Everybody used to forget their miseries on that day completely. So, on his birthday, no one knows about suffering, because they had forgotten. All the people there used to enjoy very much on that day.

On his birthday, all the people come to his house, and celebrate the party. On one of the birthdays, the father of this child also came to the party of the servant. There he saw this child, and recognized him. As the father knows about this servant's behavior, he felt sad, and asked his child to come back home. He went to the child, and told him that he was his son, and asked to come back home. But, the child just ignored everything. He forgot all his sufferings because of the too much enjoyment that he got on that day. Because, that day was the birthday of the servant, he did not see anything other than enjoyment. He thought that, it is useless to leave all these enjoyments and go to home. But, he does not remember that from the next day onwards, he has to do slavery again. So, he ignored, and rejected to come back home. From that day onwards, on every birthday, the father is coming and asking him to come back home. But, that child never listened.

Are you showing any sympathy to the child?

If you really show any sympathy, then you can read this. Otherwise, you can ignore this and proceed with your work.

Everyone of us are in the same situation of that child. Our father is none other than Lord Sri Krishna. We left our real home (spiritual world) and came to this material world. Maya (illusion) controls this material world. Eventhough, it is a servant of Krishna, it acts as enemy to whomever leaves the spiritual world. We are getting bodies of animals, plants, etc., and suffering so much in that lifes. But, when we get human life, we are forgetting everything, and thinking that we are enjoying a lot. But, we forget that in our next life we have to suffer again like previously. We get this human chance once in a while. If you want to know how frequently, we get this human life, just see the ratio of the number of human beings to all other living beings. Human population is around 6 billion. Population of other living beings are atleast 10000 times more than human population. On an average, we get this life once in 10000 times. Krishna is coming in every millienium to take all of us to our real home, spiritual world. But, we are ignoring his words, and still staying here. So, let us go to spiritual world, and stop all these miseries.

Going to spiritual world is very easy for us. Because, krishna gave one mantra which takes us to spiritual world very easily. Let us chant the mantra,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

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