A SMALL STORY WHICH TELLS US THAT, GOD LOOKS AFTER US IF WE HAVE FAITH ON HIM.
ARJUNACHARYA was a great devotee of Krishna, and he spent all day reading SRIMAD BHAGAVAD-GITA, and writing a commentary on it. He was hopelessly poor and would struggle to earn a two square meal for him and his family. His wife, though a devoted woman, was vexed with poverty, and not able to feed her children every single day, started a fight with him to go and earn a living, instead of spending all day reading SRIMAD BHAGAVAD-GITA, and scribbling.
While the fight was on, ARJUNACHARYA, was reading the sloka, "अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जना: पर्युपासते | तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्" Meaning: There who always think of Me and engage in faith and devotion to Me. To them, whose minds are always absorbed in Me, I provide what they lack and preserve what they already possess.
Frustrated that Krishna ignored him, he took a piece of charcoal, and scratched the shloka black, threw the book and went to the river to bathe. As he left, two boys came with cartloads of food enough for a whole year, and told ARJUNACHARYA's wife that her husband had asked them to deliver the groceries.
Happy and elated, she thanked the boys, and observed that one boy who was dark, had his face smeared with charcoal, and asked her who did that. The boy said, your husband punished me because I was naughty, and didn't deliver it on time, and left. After a while, ARJUNACHARYA came home to a welcoming wife and aroma of delicious food.
Confused, he asked her where the food came from. The wife took him to the room and showed him the room filled with groceries and told him that two boys, one dark and one fair came with cartloads of groceries saying that he asked them to deliver them home, and also repimanded him for being harsh on such a beautiful boy, by blackening his face just because he was late.
ARJUNACHARYA ran inside the pooja room and fell to the feet of Krishna, and asked forgiveness. He told his wife that she was fortunate enough to have the darshana of KRISHNA and BALARAMA. He took SRIMAD BHAGAVAD-GITA, which he threw away in anger, and opened the page with the sloka he blackened, only to see that th sloka was free from charcoal stains
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