Once with tearful eyes, his wife told him, it doesn't matter if we are hungry but we should at least be able to feed the children enough. On hearing this sudama felt very hurt amp said, what can be done? we can't ask for favors from anybody. He is the king of dwarka, so why don't you go to him? there won't be any need to ask for anything there. He decided to go to dwarka amp said, i'll definitely go to krishna but what should i take along for his children? sudama's wife borrowed some rice snacks from their neighbor. She bound the food in a piece of torn cloth amp sudama took the bundle amp left for dwarka. On seeing sudama who looked like a hermit, the palace guards asked, why have you come here? sudama answered, i want to meet krishna who is my friend. Everyone looked on in wonder upon seeing such a great king running bare footed to meet his poor friend.

Seeing krishna's wealth, sudama felt ashamed of the rice snacks that he had brought amp tried to hide the bundle but krishna snatched it from him. While enjoying the snack krishna said, i have never tasted such sweetness in anything else. He stayed at the palace for two days but he couldn't prepare himself to ask krishna for any favors. On the way back, sudama wondered, what shall i say when my wife asks me what i've brought back? as sudama approached home, he could not find his hut! instead, his wife came out from a magnificent palace amp dressed in elegant clothes. so friends, did you see how pure was the friendship of krishna amp sudama? true love doesn't distinguish between high amp low status or between riches amp poverty. © nordic school of public health issn 1104 5701 isbn 91 7997 151 2 mph 200 dnr u12/02 master of public health – essay –. krishna कृष्ण in devanagari, kṛṣṇa in iast, pronounced ˈkr̩ʂɳə literally black.

Dark blue is a hindu deity, regarded as an avatar of vishnu and in some traditions considered the supreme being. krishna is often depicted as an infant or young boy playing a flute as in the bhagavata purana. Clat 2011 solved paper english comprehension the questions in this section are based on a single passage.

The questions are to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. Please note that for some of the questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the. Clat 2011 solved paper english comprehension the questions in this section are based on a single passage. For the suffering man, tired with the constant striving for sensual gratification, pricked by the arrows of desire, the only source of peace is to immerse himself in the ocean of stories narrating the spiritual adventures of lord krishna. Indeed the shrimad bhagavatam says: ‘true speech is only the one that sings the glory of krishna. Only that mind is worthy of its name which contemplates on him who abides in the hearts of all creatures. The head justifies its name only when it bows before both the moving and the unmoving forms of the lord.

Only those can be truly called eyes which see god everywhere.’ x.80.3 4 one such story is that of sudama, a friend of lord krishna. Sa means ‘together’ and kha means ‘renown’, suggesting a pair of friends who are renowned together for example rama lakshmana, krishna arjuna, krishna balarama and also krishna sudama. Sudama was a wise brahmin who not only had a deep theoretical knowledge of the vedas but also lived according to vedic principles. Though he was a householder he made do with whatever came his way and never made any efforts to acquire anything. Whenever anyone gave them a little rice, she would cook and serve it to him at times going hungry herself. His wife, not anxious for her own personal self but extremely concerned about her husband, requested him in a sweet voice, even though her own body was trembling with weakness: lord, i have heard that krishna, the husband of goddess lakshmi, is your friend. When he will come to know that you are a householder but still struggling for a few grains, he will definitely give you sufficient money to make your ends meet.

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He is so generous that he gives away even himself to devotees who remember his lotus feet. Will not he, who is the father of the whole world, confer worldly necessities on his devotees, which are negligible compared to the spiritual boons he blesses them with and hence easily given ? sudama was disinclined to go to krishna for any material gain. He was convinced that the lord was omniscient, all powerful and supremely compassionate.