О санньясе Бхакти Ракшака Шридхара Махараджа

(отрывок из беседы Бхактиведанты Свами Прабхупады, 6 февраля1974 года, Вриндаван):

So actually, that is the fact, and I was going to tell about Çrédhara Swami. Çrédhara Swami was a great devotee, so he was thinking of taking sannyäsa. So he was contemplating that "I shall now leave my home and take sannyäsa.'' So in the meantime, his wife became pregnant. Then he thought that "I was thinking like that. Anyway, this has happened, and if I take sannyäsa now, what people will say, that 'His wife is pregnant and he has taken sannyäsa, he has gone out of home.' " So he waited, the child was born, and the mother died. (laughing) Then he thought, "I do not know what Kåñëa desires. Who will take care of this child, motherless child?'' So that he was thinking very deeply. One lizard dropped before him, one small child lizard. Mother gave birth to a child this morning, and the small lizard ... Читать дальше »