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Swaminarayan- Lord Swaminarayan redeems Ajubhai, his friend and their generations
Lord Swaminarayan redeems Ajubhai, his friend and their generations
(Courtesy of Swaminarayan.info)
A devotee of Shreeji Maharaj, called Ajubhai once
invited Maharaj to grace the wedding of his friend’s son. Maharaj agreed and
left for the wedding together with His saints and devotees. When they got to the
wedding Shreeji Maharaj blessed Ajubhai’s friend and also garlanded the
bridegroom.
When the wedding was over, one of the saints
requested Maharaj for leave as they had to perform the evening aarti and other
evening rituals/recitals. So Maharaj was just about to leave when Ajubhai’s
friend requested Maharaj to stay and perform the aarti and the other
rituals/recitals at their house. Maharaj was very pleased and asked the saints
to perform the aarti there. They also sang the ‘Ram Krishna Govind…’praises
and the chestha ‘pratham Shree Hari charne re….’.
Shreeji Maharaj then initiated the bridegroom and
his father into the Swaminarayan faith . Then Maharaj said to Ajubhai, “Ajubhai
you are very lucky, three generations of your friend’s family will achieve My
Akshardhaam (Highest abode) and satsang (association with saintly people) will
forever remain in their generations to come and they will be devoted to Me and
will all finally be redeemed and will return to My abode!”. Additionally
Maharaj said “ And all the fruits of their salvation will go to you Ajubhai”.
How merciful Lord Swaminarayan is, can be shown
by the incident above. Due to the association of Ajubhai, He completely redeemed
His devotee’s friend and the rest of his generations. Not only that He also
then promised the fruits of causing such redemption to Ajubhai! We should always
realise the importance of associating with saintly people. Not only are our sins
washed away but our deeds become pure too and we attain the service of our
favourite Lord, Lord Swaminarayan.
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