| Volume - IX |
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| Culture Course |
JADA BHARATA |
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| That sage was
born as a deer in his next birth. Our sastras say that a man will be born in his next birth as that thing about which he was thinking most at the time of his death. Therefore wise men advise us always to think of God so that it will become a habit with us. As a result-of his tapas, the deer that was Bharata, could remember its past. It regretted: "How foolish of me to have forgotten my tapas and become attached to an animal? And now I suffer for it, being born an animal. I shall not repeat the mistake." Saying this the deer left its mother and began living in the vicinity of a Rishi's ashrama spending all its time thinking of God. |
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