Krsnas will !

[Paramananda das]

Krsnas will !
Srila Prabhupada told this and I am just telling it in my own worlds
Krsna is in our heart directing us in this world.. Srila Prabhupada told the story of the joker Gopal Ban that was a jester in one Bengali kings court,,, and one time ,they went hunting , Vedic Kings would go kill lion and tigers that would trouble humans ,so Gopal Barn was not with him and they king had thrown him in jail ,because he was displeased with one statement he had told , the king had in an accident lost part of one little finger, and Gopal Barn told the King ,my dear King do not feel sad somehow it must have been Krsnas will ! The King said , You fool I am throwing you in jail ,lets see if it is Krsnas will! SO during hte hunting he was kidnapped by some cannibal that wanted to offer him to Durga and eat his meat , but then they saw the missing pinky and said oh he can not be offered and they let him go . The King rushed back and freed Gopal Ban , and said you were right ,it was Krsnas will I lost the pinky ,,but tell me why is it Krsnas mercy I threw you in jail ? Gopal embraced the king and said with a big smile dear King I am you best friend and go with you everywhere ,so it is easy to understand I would have gone with you hunting for that tiger, but the Durga worshippers would have offered me instead to Durga and killed me, so Krsna inspired you to throw me in jail ,SO you see everything Krsna does is for our benefit 

[Paramananda das]

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in another conversation Srila Prabhupada told this pastime : Prabhupāda: Eh? [laughter] Story is that there was a joker---his name was Gopal Bān---of a king, Rāja Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇanagar, you know? Near Māyāpur? Yes, the king of that place. So they used to keep joker to please them by words. So the joker was constructing a new building. So it is almost finished, but there was no opening ceremony. So Rāja advised his..., one of his another friends, that "If you can go and pass urine in that new house of Gopal---the joker's name---before the opening ceremony, then I'll give you so much prize. Go and pass urine there." [chuckles] So, "Yes, I'll do it." So... No, "Pass stool." Yes. "Go and pass stool there. Then I'll give you so much advance." So one day he made this plan. He was passing, and all of a sudden entered = "Gopal, I am very much called by nature. Kindly show me where I shall pass stool. Where I shall pass?" So Gopal was intelligent, that it is..., there is some plan. "Yes, yes, here is lavatory. Come here." So he is... Everything was false. So then he said, "The door must be open. You pass stool there, but I'll see that you are passing stool, and door must be open." "Now, how it is possible?" "No, it is possible. You can pass stool, but you cannot pass urine. If you pass urine, then I shall kill you." Passing stool without passing urine, how it is possible? "So you have come to pass stool. That you can do here, but don't pass urine." [laughs] So that is my position. "You may have hundreds of places, but you cannot live anywhere." That is Kṛṣṇa's order. [break] ...place not to become attached. Yes.

[Paramananda das]

Srila Prabhupada mentioned this in a lecture : Just like there is a famous joker, Gopal Ban, in Bengal. So one day the king asked him, "Gopal, what is the difference between you and an ass?" So he immediately measured the distance from the king. He said, "It is three feet only, sir. The difference is only three feet." [laughter] So everyone began to laugh. And the king enjoyed that insult.

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