Shri Hari Himself serves meals to the saints.
Shri Hari Himself serves meals to the saints.
On the twelfth day the God finished his morning duties and mounted the seat, near the altar, under the Neem tree. 1.
After finishing their daily duties, people from various placed arrived there quickly with sages and sat there in discipline. 2.
After finishing the concluding worship of the lord Yogeshvara, Jaya gifted that idol and cows and other thing with reverence. 3.
At that time, an ascetic with white long matted hair came there and informed, O Master food is ready. 4.
O King ! Thus ordered by the God, all the sages, with great pleasure arrived there speedily in groups for accepting food. 5.
Having washed their feet, hands and mouth and with drinking cups, all of them sat in a row in discipline, facing towards the Lord. 6.
Having dressed up with a tight cloth tied on their waist, smart, Brahmin waiters first distributed plates for eating and a glasses for drinking water. 7.
Then, according to the liking of each person, all types of food: eatable, relish-able and drinkable were served in a proper way. 8.
Having checked that all the items are served to everybody, the God, raising both his hands up, requested/ordered them to take their food start eating. 9.
On that day, lord ordered Muktanand Swami and other sages for eating and he himself served them the food. 10.
Oh King! That lord served all the sages who were eating there, moving everywhere in that hall with all the alert Brahmin waiters. 11.
Brahmin waiter hold the serving bowels full with food and the Lord repeatedly served Jalebi and Ganthia from them. 12.
Oh King! when wherever he went to serve food in his hands and saw the people asking for it, he filled their plate full with a smiling face. He satisfied all the sages invited for lunch. 13-14.
People wondered the way he gifted the persons who were asking for it. He also satisfied the invisible, free and souls with a divine body form. 15.
At that time some men and women who mere favored by the divine sight also saw some gods coming there/attend that ceremony. At that time some men & women gifted with divine sight due to the grace done by himself also saw gods assembled there. 16.
At that time, those free souls saw heaps (as if mountains) lf delicious dishes and as if the rivers of milk and ghee and condensed milk and also saw the god himself moving in the dining hall and serving the people. 17-18.
At that time (those free souls) saw both of them to be the same, the Gods; who mere eager to accept the food given by the hands of God and the sages eating there in the hall. 19.
When the saints were satisfied with the food and started bellowing and huffing Shri Hari told the Brahmins to bring rice for them. 20.
Then he walked everywhere around the dining hall with a bowl of vessel sweet balls in left hand and condensed milk in right hand. 21.
When nobody asked for anything them god returned. But the sage Brahmanand knew the importance of God’s grace so he called requested the God, Oh come here, here please you have forgotten our plate this Nityanand is ashamed of asking for food again and again. 22-23.
At that time that Lord Shri Hari came there and served him with Payasam (condensed milk) At that time that sage saw the vessel of sweet balls in his God’s hand so he said. 24.
Oh Lord ! If you serve me only Payasa and I will lick, then this Nityanand will call me Pushana (name of sage who have no teeth in his mouth.) So please give me a Laddoos also. 25.
Then the god with a smiling face and made others also to enjoy/laugh served him a sweet ball and shouted with joy. 26.
At that time an ascetic came there with a bowl a Laddoos in both of his hands and stood before the God Shri Hari. He immediately took it from his hands. 27.
The sage Muktanand felt more than satisfied when he saw the God Shri Hari coming towards him/the God was near him. He showed him the remaining sweet ball present in his plate. 28.
This much is sufficient for this person, having thought thus in his mind, as soon he dropped sweet balls in his plate the sage shouted loudly. 29.
Though Chaitanyanand was covering his plate with hands and shaking nodding his head still Shri Hari dropped one sweet ball in his plate. 30.
He saw Nityanand his head upwards and nodding, smiling face he knew that he is satisfied he has finished his quota) the lord dropped only half sweet ball in his plate. 31.
When Nityanand shouted loudly with joy Shri Hari came to Aanandanand. Knowing his teeth to be weak/as he was weak in chewing. Shri Hari served him with Payasa only. 32.
Knowing Gopalanand to be of a small diet, Shri Hari, shouting with joy, with a smiling face served him only a quarter of a sweet ball. 33.
Then coming to Sachhidanand, who was just shouting in joke knowing/seeing his plate empty, he (the lord) put two sweet balls in his plate. 34.
He thought in his mind that Krupanand is as if waiting for him, so he took one sweet ball in his and went towards him. 35.
Having thought that Krupanand has finished his quota the Lord started breaking the sweet ball to half, but krupanand told the lord your fingers will unnecessarily be excreted so you can give me full. 36.
The Lord gave are sweet ball to him and as soon as he started giving another one he (Krupanand) shouted with joy and by that time Lord went towards Shukanand. 37.
Atmanand was chewing the reaming of his plate slowly, so the Lord gave him only half of the Shaskuli. (Jalebi) Seeing him bashful, Lord told him, Oh Muni! Brahmanand has driven away all the bashfulness from the very beginning from this hall, so you may eat as you please you accept. Saying thus he gave two sweet balls to him. 38-39.
Mahanubhavanand was not able to speak clear words due to/ because he was chewing Shaskuli (Jalebi) in his mouth. The Lord served one and half of the sweet ball in his hand to him also. 40.
Thus Shri Hari served others (sages) also gave then rice, curry and soap and then washed his hands. 41.
Satisfied with the lunch/food, all of them washed their hands and mouth, stomach full of food, - thus because drawly. 42.
Then he served with food all the helpers companions kshatriyas and others, his devotees and other hungry people just as he did before. 43.
Then, for the complication of the fast he ordered/requested all the ladies members and then went to his own house for the same. 44.
Then the religious minded master the observer of the religion, prepared food and offered it to lord shri krishna and vishwadeva also and afterwards he himself accepted the food. Completed his fast. 45.
As he do not sleep at day time he spent there one hourpraising/ appreciating the virtues of Jaya before all of them merit companions. 46.
Oh King ! Thus the Lord of this word always love/cares for his devotees. Nothing else is dearer to him except his honest/ sincere devotees. 47.
Thus ends the thirty-ninth chapter entitled, ‘Narration of describing the serving of food (to the fasting sages)on Prabodhini Ekadashi celebrations,’ in the third prakaran of Satsangi Jivan, the life story of Lord Narayan, also titled as Dharmashastra. (the rules of the code of conduct). 39