How Bhusundi became a crow sage before going back to Godhead

[Paramananda das]

How Bhusundi became a crow sage before going back to Godhead
Bhusundi was born in Ayodhya and always worshipped Lord Siva but neglected worship of Lord Ramachandra ,his Gurudeva was a great Rama Bhakta but always respected Lord Siva also , his Guru told Bhusundi to please worship Lord Ramachanra but he never listened and would often make offences to his Gurudeva.One day he worshipped Lord Siva and when his Guru came he showed him no respect and even ignored him ,Lord Siva cursed Bhusundi to become a python because he was to lazy to pay obaisences to his Gurudeva .This is a warning to all of us to never be lazy to offer respects to our Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada and all our acaryas (nor should we become lazy to offer respects to Lord Ramachandra )HisGurudeva had always told Bhusundi that devotion to Lord Siva will lead to devotion to Lord Ramachandra .So Lord Siva cursed Busundi to take 1000 births in lower forms of life, Krsna has stated also in the 16th chapter of Bhagavad Gita he cast the nondevotees into lower and lower forms of life .But the Guru of Bhusundi pleaded with Lord Siva so spare his fallen disciple , this shows how much merciful is our Gurudeva , he will never want us to undergo any suffering but simply worship the Supreme Lord.Lord Siva being pleased with the Guru say my curse never goes in vain but I bless him he will not suffer in these 1000 birth but remember his mistakes and become a devotee of Lord Ramachandra .By Lord Sivas mercy he only stayed in each of the 1000 bodies for an hour or two , so by the grace of his Gurudevas invention it was like a reduced sentence otherwise he would have had to live in each of these bodies for fulltime for long time .Lord Sri Krsna has described the transmigration of the soul to Arjuna in detail in the second chapter of Bhagavad Gita ,finally Bhusundi was given a human birth again in Ayodhya (which is such a sacred place because Lord Ramachandra appeared there)
now in this human form of life again he also became known of Bhusundi and was a great devotee of Lord Ramachandra , unfortunatly he got cursed by Lomasa Rsi ,because Bhasundi had no attraction for impersonal Brahman but when Bhasundi whent to Lomasa Rsi to learn more Lord Ramachandra , but Lomasa Rsi was a Bramha vadi he really wanted to merge in Brahman but he knew Lord Ramachandra is the Supreme Lord.Bhasundi had zero interest in Brahman realizattion he just wanted to hear about Lord Ramachandra ,so Lomasa risi cursed him to become a crow .For the next 72 days of Lord Brahma ,Bhasundi as a crow glorified Lord Ramachandra then one day by the grace of Lord Ramachandra ,Bhasundi now as a crow flew to the palace of Lord Ramachandra when he manifested pastimes and there Lord Ramachandra in His pastime form of a small baby was eating a chapati , and Lord Ramachandra patted and played with Bhasundi Kaka (Kaka is hindi and means crow)
To test the lord Ramachandras baby form he forcibly ate the Chapati in Lord Ramachandras hand and baby Rama started to cry
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Finally Lord Ramachadra gave him darshan of His Divinity as the Supreme Lord, and Lord Ramachandra blessed Kaka Bhusundi to glorify him with devotion until the end of Lord Brahmas life ,so Bhasundi is somewhere on Earth glorifying Lord Ramachandra still and is worshipped by all devotees of Lord Ramachandra.After that He will enter the abode of Lord Ramachandra and serve the Lord there eternally