The Result of Attachment

Today I would tell you about an incident which shows what happens due to attachment to the world!! This was narrated by Sri Sadananda Chakraborty mohashoy who had happened to visit a place somewhere in Assam where the nature had bestowed all its beauty. But when he visited that place he came to know of certain very supernatural things told by the locals there which was very alarming!! The locals told that they are scared to go to that place after the dusk or some time even in the day time also as many ghosts of some vaishnavs are being seen as roaming there!!! Sadananda babu did not believe all those stories and decided to spend some days there and while staying he also actually saw them and became a bit scared!!! He thought deeply on this and decided to ask our holy Gurudev about this and wrote a letter to him!! After some days he received a reply from our Guruji that He Himself is going to visit that place along with some other devotees and accordingly arrangements were being made for His visit. Sadananda babu  quite obviously became very much excited after coming to know of Guruji’s visit and was also very anxious to know about the ghosts of the vaishvas being roaming there!! The days became very difficult for him to pass and then one fine day Sri Sri Thakur reached there along with other devotees!! Sadanada babu welcomed Him and after paying respects asked Him about the ghosts!! Sri Sri Thakur smiled and started saying that long time ago Sri Advaitaacharya who was the closest disciple of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and who was also known as the avatar of Maha Vishnu and one out of the Panch Tatvas (Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Nityananda Prabhu, Sri Advaita acharya, Sri Gadadhara, Sri Sribas Acharya)  had a daughter named as Smt. Hemlini Devi. Now this Hemlini Devi who was also a great Vaishnavite just like her great father had many vaishnav disciples!! Once day she alongwith all her disciples happened to came to this beautiful place and spend some days here!! After a month or so when she decided to leave that place most of her disciples requested not to leave the place as it is very beautiful filled with utmost natural beauty. Smt. Hemlini Devi became astonished at this and warned them that sanyasis should not be attached with any worldly matters and should have a detached sense but they didn’t agreed to this!! She felt sorry for them and blessed them and subsequently left that place! Time went with days and months and years and those vaishnavs could not leave that place as they were under the spell of it. Slowly one by one vaishnavs died by their own karmic timings but even after dying they could not leave and hence became ghosts due to their attachment with the place and for years they are roaming here like this!! Sri Sri Thakur now asked everyone to organise an utsav and sri naam sankirtan for the salvation of those ill fated souls and accordingly everything was arranged!! The naam sankirtan started, Sadananda babu who himself was a good kirtaniya also took part but after some time he felt that the naam sankirtan is not picking that pace it should take!! He was feeling little tired and since it was late night also he thought to take little nap while others were continuing the kirtan. Very soon he went into deep sleep when suddenly he felt as someone was shaking to woke him up from the sleep. First he thought that it must some devotee of Gurudev and asked to not to disturb but suddenly he felt as the hands being very very soft and it can’t be except our Guruji!! He immediately wake up from sleep and saw it was true, Sri Sri Thakur was standing before him!! Gurudev asked smilingly to immediately go and see what is happening there in the kirtan premises, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has himself arrived along with all His Parshads and doing Sri naam sankirtan and the Hare Krishna Mahamantra is circulating the whole kirtan premises!! He asked Sadananda babu to immediately join the kirtan group!! Sadananda babu ran to the kirtan premises and saw that sri naam sankirtan was at its peak height and it seemed that the whole place was shaking due to the dance of the kirtan group, it seemed to him that this kirtan is from some other world and he has never heard or seen such a divine kirtan in his whole life!!! Whatever it is, as per Guruji’s wish all those souls of the vaishnavs got liberated from this world due to the holy naam sankirtan!! All Glory to our beloved Gurudev Sri Sri Ramthakur!! All Glory to Sri Naam Sankirtan!!