The day I got a deserved beating....

[Paramananda das]

PAMHO
AGTSP

   As a child sometimes my dad used to slap me.

 And on sankirtana ,  bookdistribution, 2 times ,somone just came out of envy and punched me.I never retaliated.

But took it as Krsnas mercy, that what have I said wrong that would make someone that angry with my preaching.That was long ago in 1981 -82.

 But once in Vrindavana , around holi I had visited Srila Prabhupadas quaters at Radha Damodara temple maybe around 1988. And the ladies was beating all the men with sticks as part of the holi celebration, I also got a good beating.That beating was nectar, I am not worshipping Krsna from not being beaten in hell as stated by King Kulasekhara in his Mukunda Mala:

MM 4: O Lord Hari, it is not to be saved from the dualities of material existence or the grim tribulations of the Kumbhīpāka hell that I pray to Your lotus feet. Nor is my purpose to enjoy the soft-skinned beautiful women who reside in the gardens of heaven. I pray to Your lotus feet only so that I may remember You alone in the core of my heart, birth after birth.

MM 5: O my Lord! I have no attachment for religiosity, or for accumulating wealth, or for enjoying sense gratification. Let these come as they inevitably must, in accordance with my past deeds. But I do pray for this most cherished boon: birth after birth, let me render unflinching devotional service unto Your two lotus feet.

MM 6: O Lord, killer of the demon Naraka! Let me reside either in the realm of the demigods, in the world of human beings, or in hell, as You please. I pray only that at the point of death I may remember Your two lotus feet, whose beauty defies that of the lotus growing in the Śarat season.

I pray to Radha Krsna if I deserve another beating may it be in your transendental abode as your eternal associate,as a priya narma sakha under the care of Srila Prabhupada ,Ujjvala and Subal Sakha, dear Radha Krsna please direct me eternally in your devotional service.

your eternal servant

Paramanananda das