|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 249 – The legend of Lord Krishna -  100

The legend of the Rukmini Vivah represents the union of Jeeva with the Paramathma, the union of the soul with the Supreme Lord, the five brothers of Rukmini represents the sense organs which always wedge on the material well-being.  The mind and intellect only has the ability to elevate the soul with the constant practice of recitation and remembrance of glorious myths of supreme Lord.  The association with the saintly men and ascetics, constant contemplation and listening to the various myths from scriptures would elevate the soul to the state of supreme bliss, it enhances the devotion, eventually attains the union with the Paramathma, it is the promise of supreme Lord to Jeeva, whoever contemplates upon the supreme Lord with constant recitation and meditation would remain pure and get rid of all the sins finally attain union with the Supreme Lord.

There is an interesting legend of a lion cub that was lost from its herd and reached in the hands of a cowherd who took great care of it and kept it with the herds of goat, eventually, the lion cub adopted all the habits the baby goat, consumed grass, remained nervous to walk alone.  The lion cub was too attached to the herd of goat, produced bleat like the baby goats.  The cowherd took all the goats and the lion cub for grazing in the woods, he was not aware that he has been under constant observation of a lion.  The lion was surprised to notice the lion cub producing bleat and walking close to the herds of the goat; it rushed to the herd of goats and caught hold of the lion cub, alas! It ran towards the cowherd was safely taken home.  The same incident happened once again, this lime lion did not leave the lion cub; it took the cub on the river bank.  The lion cub was all horrified, but the lion did not leave it to hold, produced an earsplitting roar, the cub was terrified.  The lion instructed the cub to watch his face and his own image in the water.  The lion cub looked at the water and found his own image and the image of the lion are the same. Thus, slowly the lion cub regained its confidence, it forced the cub to produce roar like him, fed it with the meat of deer, it was all new experience for the cub, surprisingly it got adapted to the new style of living like a lion.  The constant remembrance of the Supreme Lord who has endless prowess, learning the scriptures which describe the greatest potentials of the human mind and intellect is called the practice of spirituality.