9 March 2010


Sharanagati – A Firm Refuge in God

Jai Swaminarayan

Read this story from the Mahabharat:

Things had heated up on the Kurukshetra battlefield. Bodies were strewn everwhere, and the night was thick with the smell of death and anxiety. In the Kaurava camp, the evil Duryodhana was furious with the amount of soldiers he had lost. He blamed nobody but his own Grandfather – Bheeshma pitama for being far too lenient on the courageous Pandavs. Bheeshma who had sworn to stay loyal to the throne of Hastinapur, had done everything he could to defeat the Pandavs but it was all in vain. Then that night, something terrible happened. Bheeshma took an oath. He swore that by sundown the next day he would kill Arjun, the great archer, beloved brother of the pandavs and most dangerous warrior of the Pandav army.

News of this terrible oath came flying to the Pandav camp. Krishna awoke Arjun in the dead of the night and warned him to prepare his army for a momentous battle, for his very life was even more in grave danger. Arjun did no such thing. He looked at Krishna with a sleepy, yet content smile and went back to sleep. “Arjun! What are you doing?! Why are you going back to sleep?” cried Lord Krishna, “Aren’t you worried about Bheeshma killing you?”

Arjun looked up at Lord Krishna and said, “When I have you by my side, my Lord – why should I be worried about death?”

The moral of this story is all about taking a firm refuge at God’s feet. Because God is the all doer and because we are his children – he will always protect us, as long as we keep faith in him. God never does anything bad to us, though at times we may think so. But we must remember that sometimes bad things happen to prevent even worse things from happening. This is all due to God’s grace.

God protects us from harm and as long as we hold this thought resolutely in our minds and follow the niyams that Maharaj and Swami Bapa have given us – they will always, always, always protect us from greater evils in the world. Guaranteed.

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