Re: Question

Nityananda! gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Please accept my humble obeisances,

Dear surrendered souls,

(The following is excerpt from a lecture given by H.H. Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja in an issue of Krsnakathamrta whitch may be downloaded in its entirety here:   
http://www.gopaljiu.org/Bindu/Back_issues/Bindu121.pdf  )


One day, Nityananda Prabhu and His brother BankaRaya were visiting the village of Mayureswara. They were about to enter a jungle that was situated near that village, but the local villagers warned Them that there was a giant, venomous cobra there and whoever entered never returned, as the cobra would eat them. But Nityananda did not listen to them. He entered the jungle and approached the giant cobra. The snake raised his hood and was hissing, ready to attack, but Nitai was undisturbed. Because He is Ananta Sesa, the cobra obeyed Nityananda Prabhu. Nitai asked the cobra why he was killing innocent humans and animals. The cobra then told his story relating from the Dvarpayuga. The cobra told Nitai that he has been following an order given by Arjuna to stay by the tamala tree. The cobra asked Arjuna how he would survive, and Arjuna said that he could eat whomever happened to come by. Nitai said this behavior was not good and that he should go into a hole by the tamala tree and not come out. But the cobra asked the same question of how he would survive. Nitai told him that peole would come to worship him and offer him great quantities of food. So the cobra agreed and entered into that hole and remained there. Then Nityananda Prabhu took one of His earrings and covered the opening of that hole. The earring gradually increased in size. Now it has turned into a big block of stone and people have built a temple over it. That place is still there and is known as Kundalitala. People still go there today and offer worship to that cobra and offer him much food. From that day forward, Lord Nityananda wore only one colorful earring in his left ear. 

Your grateful servant,
bhaktatommy

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