clean heart lead to approach god

1. Purity of Heart and Soul
can lead you Godliness
by Harikrishnamurthy

2. There lived a cobbler by the name
Ramdas who lived and worked near
river Ganga. A pilgrim group came
there and they saw Ravidas sitting and
fixing leather shoes. They gave one or
two pairs of shoes for repair and asked
him how many times he had taken
bath in Ganga. He replied that he had
not bathed in Ganga at all. These
pilgrims who took pride in their
spiritual accomplishments
sarcastically told him:

3. "We wish we did not give our shoes for
repair to such an atheist who lived
and worked near divine Ganga nadi
and still never bothered to take bath
in this punya nadi." Then they gave
him a coin as remuneration for
mending their shoes. He refused to
accept the money and told them that
he never accepted money from
pilgrims. If they are very particular,
he said they could offer that coin to
Ganga Nadi saying :

4. "Ganga Devi, this is an
offering from cobbler
Ravidas". So they took bath
in river Ganga and threw
the coin in to the river and
said mockingly: "Divine
mother Ganga, here is an
offering from cobbler
Ravidas.”

5. Immediately two beautiful hands
appeared from inside the river
and caught the coin with those
hands and told: "I am so
honored to accept this gift from
Ravidas, the great soul. " Then
she gave a beautiful golden
bangle studded with precious
stones to the pilgrims and told
them that it was a gift from her
to Ravidas.

6. As we can imagine, they did not give it
to Ravi das, but took it to the king of
Benares and offered it to him to please
him. King gave the bangle to the queen
and queen liked it so much that she
wanted another one. So king asked the
pilgrims where they got it and they
were afraid to tell the truth. So they
promised the king that they would get
another one and ran to Ravidas and fell
at his feet and and asked him to get
one more bangle.

7. Ravidas had a small container in front of
him with water to wet the leather. He said:
"If our mind is pure and if we love Ganga
Devi, Ganga Devi will even come and stay
in this container”.Then he asked them to
look inside the cup and they saw another
bangle in that water that matched exactly
with the one given before by Ganga Devi.
They could not believe their eyes. They took
the bangle, prostrated at his feet and
apologized for their treating him with
disrespect. Ravidas blessed them by
praying to Ganga Devi and continued his
job of mending the shoes.

8. It is our sincere attitude of surrender
that matters and not nothing else. May
Bhagavan bless us with an attitude of
total surrender!
Courtesy: Harikrishnamurthy
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