Prayagraj: Upon attaining human form, one must listen to the Bhagwat Katha. Those who do not listen to it in life are like animals. They are also considered equivalent to a Chandala (a sinner) and a donkey. Acharya Janmejaya Krishna said this on Friday, the second day of the ongoing Shrimad Bhagwat Katha at the Nandeshwar Mahadev Temple complex in Nanda Village, Kalindipuram.
He said that one should never get lost in modernity; Sanatan Dharma teaches the art of living. Listening to the Bhagavata Katha liberates even the gravest sinners. Narada says that even those born in the ghost world can be saved if they listen to the Bhagavata Katha. The name of the ghost who was liberated is Gokarna, who listened to the Bhagavata Katha. Happiness and sorrow in life come from human actions. Every living being has to suffer the consequences of karma. Atma Dev Sharma lived on the banks of the Tungabhadra River. He was a great scholar, and his wife’s name was Dhundhli. She was dull-witted and quarrelsome. They had no children. In remorse, he left his home and went to the forest, crying. A passing monk asked him the reason for his crying. He told him that he felt unwell at home because he had no children. The monk told him that it was written on his forehead that he would not have children even in seven births.
Then Atmdev tried to kill himself by hitting his forehead on a stone, then the saint gave him a fruit and said that if he feeds it to his wife then she will surely have a son, he took the fruit and gave it to his wife, his wife did not eat the fruit out of doubt. The next day his elder sister Mahadhundhli came and told him that eating this will not result in any child, so he fed it to the cow, Mahadhundhli gave her son to her younger sister, so that child was named Dhundakari, the one born from the cow was named Gokarna, he became a great scholar. Whereas Dhundakari turned out to be a great wicked person.
At the conclusion of the Katha, Saint Atmaram from Haryana, former President of the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh I. Chaturvedi, and Acharya Rajesh Tripathi were honored. Hundreds of men and women, including retired Captain S.N. Tiwari, Ravi Verma, Sanjay Singh, Yogesh Tripathi, Tinku, Saroj Tiwari, Satyendra Yadav, Yogesh Kumar Mishra, Prabha R. Upadhyay, and Meenakshi Jaiswal, were present.
