The three Ghosh brothers, Vasudev Ghosh, Madhava Ghosh and Govinda Ghosh were all great devotees of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Govinda Ghosh was living a very simple yet blissful life while worshiping his beloved deity, Gopinath. Govinda Ghosh was very detached from worldly affairs and he was very dear to the Lord. He had a son whom he brought up very nicely teaching him the art of living in Krishna Consciousness.....It was only natural that he loves his son a lot just like any other fathers would do...Suddenly,his very young son died.....Govinda Ghosh was so depressed....He asked his deity.."He Gopinath, he was the only one I had, you took him as well,from me.....what am I supposed to do? Govinda Ghosh was lamenting in this way..it is a very sad thing that his wife too had died untimely before...
That night, Gopinath appeared in his dream....He asked..."Dear Govinda, why are you lamenting?" Govinda Ghosh answered, "How am I not to lament? You took my only son....after I leave this body, who will be doing shraddha for me? I am an orphan now!"
Gopinath answered lovingly," He Govinda, why have you forgotten me? Am I not your son? Will I not perform your shraddha? I noticed that you love your son more than me...that is why i took him with me.....Stay assured..I will perform your shraddha"
After some time,Govinda Ghosh left his body and Gopinath wore a white cloth and performed his shraddha....This deity of Gopinath is still there wearing a white cloth....and he offers pinda for Govinda Ghosh without fail...
Just see, how krishna loves us.Sometimes, things can happen to be very cruel and hopeless....but Krishna has a reason for everything and he makes sure that only the best things happen to us...
I have experienced this many times in my life......whenever I feel sad for not getting attention or love from my beloved ones, I turn back to the forever smiling face of Jagannath....
Immediately,I bounce back..what is the use of love that is temporary and conditional? If everyone loves me as much as I do, maybe i will drown myself in satisfying them and making them happy..... Since i don't experience that, Krishna has given me a great chance to simply love him and I can directly feel his protection and mercy...
Dear devotees, my humble request is...whenever depression and distress comes to you, just raise your hands in front of the Lord sincerely and leave it to Him...He will do wonders.......
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Krishna is the eternal lover. I have probably wondered why people are jst concerned about their material pleasures when they can gain even more peace and ecstatic happiness by loving the ever beautiful Krishna.