VENKATESA PURAANAM
#21. The ghee lamps
Vishnu sarma was a Brahmin. He gave up all his kula aachaaram and vichaaram. He found happiness and pleasure in the company of fallen women. He possessed even the wife of his own guru.
When he became old, all his sins afflicted him along with his old age. He became very sick and sad. Nobody wanted to have anything to do with him. He was driven out of his own home and town.
He went to the jungle nearby. He was too tired and feeble to go on. He fell down and could not get up again. Wild animals came to eat his flesh and he met a very sad and cruel end.
Yama was told of the sins of Vishnu sarma. “This man was not loyal to his guru. He enjoyed the company of his own guru patni.” Yama became very angry with this wicked man and sent him off to the hell promptly.
Veda Naaman was Vishnu sarma’s son. He was a good man and a good son. He thought about his dear departed father. “My father was born as a Brahmin. But he committed all kinds of sins without even thinking about their evil after effects.
He died a painful death. Surely he must be suffering in the hell. I wish I could dissolve his sins and make him free from the sufferings of the hell. ”
He prayed to lord Srinivaasan with bhakti and lit the lamps filled with the ghee made out of cow’s milk. The bundle of sins committed by Vishnu Sarma started getting reduced slowly until one day all his sons had vanished.
He was allowed to go out of the hell and escape from his sufferings. He reached Vaikuntham solely because of the sincere efforts of his dear son Veda Naaman.
#21. The ghee lamps
Vishnu sarma was a Brahmin. He gave up all his kula aachaaram and vichaaram. He found happiness and pleasure in the company of fallen women. He possessed even the wife of his own guru.
When he became old, all his sins afflicted him along with his old age. He became very sick and sad. Nobody wanted to have anything to do with him. He was driven out of his own home and town.
He went to the jungle nearby. He was too tired and feeble to go on. He fell down and could not get up again. Wild animals came to eat his flesh and he met a very sad and cruel end.
Yama was told of the sins of Vishnu sarma. “This man was not loyal to his guru. He enjoyed the company of his own guru patni.” Yama became very angry with this wicked man and sent him off to the hell promptly.
Veda Naaman was Vishnu sarma’s son. He was a good man and a good son. He thought about his dear departed father. “My father was born as a Brahmin. But he committed all kinds of sins without even thinking about their evil after effects.
He died a painful death. Surely he must be suffering in the hell. I wish I could dissolve his sins and make him free from the sufferings of the hell. ”
He prayed to lord Srinivaasan with bhakti and lit the lamps filled with the ghee made out of cow’s milk. The bundle of sins committed by Vishnu Sarma started getting reduced slowly until one day all his sons had vanished.
He was allowed to go out of the hell and escape from his sufferings. He reached Vaikuntham solely because of the sincere efforts of his dear son Veda Naaman.