The Great Devotee Sri Madhob Pagla III

Dear All, today I would to share you all another very beautiful and divine story of Great Devotee Sri Madhob Pagla of Varanasi!! This incident again shows how our beloved Lord is always eager for the caring of His devotees!! It once happened that it was the time for the big annual festival to be organised in the famous temple of Sri Sri Radha Govindji where Sri Madhob Pagla was the priest.  The arrangements were going on with full swing and various offerings were coming in the temple from the various devotees all over the Varanasi and even from outside. Sri Madhob Pagla was obviously very much excited about the big celebration and keen as he was the main priest and there were responsibilities also vested on his shoulder. On the early morning of the day of festival when he sat to perform puja as per his daily schedule suddenly Sri Govindji spoke and asked him to not to touch and eat anything or any prasad from this temple!!!!! Suddenly hearing this instruction Madhob Pagla became totally shocked and stunned!!! For a minute he became totally dumb struck and became totally confused and thought why Sri Govindji is asking him to do such a difficult thing which would be very painful also for him!! He asked the Lord Why???? Why are you asking me to do this??? The whole world would be eating various types of prasad which would be offered to you and moreover I am the main priest of this temple and if I didn’t  touch or eat your prasad what will everybody think or say??? But the Lord didn’t  agreed and ordered him to not to touch or eat the prasad!! Hearing this now Madhob Pagla also argued and said that I will not listen to you and would definitely eat the delicious prasads of the temple!!! Sri Govindji didn’t said anything. After sometime a small boy came to tell him to visit a house of an old widow who used to live near the temple premises and here I should inform you that this widow had a long time desire to feed Sri Madhob Pagla. When Madhob Pagla visited her home he was astonished to see that she had prepared many delicacies for him and had placed and she kept all those items beautifully in a big plate!!! Sri Madhob Pagla became very much surprised at this and asked about it to which she told that it was her long time desire to feed him and very humbly requested him to accept the food!! Madhob Pagla couldn’t refuse her honest and pious desire and sat to eat and to his astonishment found that each n every item was very delicious and he ate full to his heart's content. After eating the food and seeing off the widow’s house when he reached the temple the time for the puja had already arrived and suddenly he realised that what mistake he has committed by eating the food at the widow’s house as he had decided to eat the prasad at the temple, now he has no place in his stomach to eat anything and felt very bad inside his heart!!! All the various types of delicacies were being offered to the Lord and Madhob Pagla sat to perform the afternoon puja but he became surprised that he was not able to remember the mantras being required for the worshipping!!!! The doors of the main sanctum was closed, outside there were hundreds and hundreds of people waiting eagerly for the completion of puja and inside he was alone with the Lord!!! He tried his level best to remember the mantras but he couldn’t!! He became astonished at this and started crying and pleaded before the Lord as to what sin he has committed that he is not being able to remember the mantras which he is chanting daily for several times!!!! He was crying profusely and then suddenly the Lord spoke and said you ask me eat all these uchchista (half-eaten or eaten by somebody else) food?????  Hearing this Sri Madhob Pagla was totally dumb struck and stunned!!! What are you saying my Lord??? Who is doing this??? Lord replied the Cook!! He couldn’t believe his own ears!!! Then suddenly he understood all the divine leela of his Lord who stopped him from eating the prasad which is actually a half-eaten food and made him eat at the house of widow so that Madhob Pagla not remain hungry!! He cried and cried for the utmost carefulness of the Lord for him and pleaded to forgive him for his earlier behaviour!! He opened the doors of the temple and people raised their voices glorifying the name of the Lord Sri Radha Govindji!! The prasad were being carried away and offered to the people and everybody ate that food thinking it to be prasad of Lord but it reality which wasn’t!!! The condition of Sri Madhob Pagla was very pathetic, he was just crying and praying to Lord as O Lord! Please do something and stop all this mischief of the notorious cook!! If I say something nobody will believe me!! He didn’t took any prasad and people started suspecting Sri Madhob Pagla and his devotion for the Lord!! The temple authority and the various other devotees even rebuked his devotion and discussed about him among themselves and everywhere he became the topic of their discussions!!!  Madhob Pagla would daily cry and request the Lord to bring to limelight the wrongdoings of the Cook before everybody and like this nearly a month had passed and then one day when he was not at the temple and gone out for market, the Lord played his divine leela and the mischief of the Cook was caught red-handed by the temple authorities and was removed from the temple!! When Madhob Pagla returned to the temple and came to know of the incident, became very delighted and informed everybody about the incident which had happened a month ago on the day of the annual festival!! He told everybody that daily he was asking the Lord to catch hold of the crook and today his answers had been answered!! All Glory to Guru and Govinda!!!