Story Time: Story of the Sons of Brahma Cursing the Door-Keepers of Narayana

In this LIVE story session, Swami Purnachaitanya in his beautiful style narrates the fascinating story of how
the door-keepers of Narayana, Jaya and Vijaya, were cursed by the four sons of Brahmaa who were denied entry when they wanted to worship Lord Narayana. A beautiful secret and deeper meaning of devotion is shared in this story. Swami Purnachaitanya is a disciple of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and is originally from The Netherlands. He is an expert on Yoga, Meditation, Mantras, Ayurveda and Vedic Wisdom. He is a Senior Faculty and Director of Programs of The Art of Living.
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[@dranilkumarr]

Jay guru dev

[@sarojavenkataraman4422]

Very nicely said. Jgd.

[@anilsinghet]

Beautiful aa you

[@anubali4727]

Jai guru dev swami ji Got to hear your meditative voice after long, as ever the profound knowledge delivered in simple and joyful manner keeps the listener wanting for more. Bless that I and my family remain in guru sharan always

[@sudhadharwadkar7415]

Jai Gurudev Swamiji Very nice devotional story

[@sudhadharwadkar7415]

Jai Gurudev Swamiji This Story is full of Knowledge

[@sudhadharwadkar7415]

Jai Gurudev Swamiji Liked to listen the story

[@sujatagaonkar4437]

Jai Gurudev 🙏 Swamiji thanku so much bless me I learn not to hate anyone in our life 🙏

[@sudhadharwadkar7415]

Jai Gurudev Swamiji

[@nalinidela376]

Wow! Swamiji. I loved the part of sharing your anger,hatred with the Lord. Like Gurudev days put all your problems in my botherations basket. Jai Guru Dev Swamiji. Jai Guru. 🙏🪔🌺🌺🌺🌺🕉

[@arpitasahoo7719]

Sambhrama yoga!!!😮 Countless are the creative tricks of our divine

[@airienlachman7278]

Dhanyavaad Swami Ji 💐💐aap ki arth iss Gyaan bhare Katha par, itne mithaas chhupe huwe hai. 🕉🙏🏽 Aum Shree Narayana 🙏🏽🕉

[@annukakkar5641]

More stories swamiji

[@tirupati12345678]

I want to hear a lot of stories from you swamiji

[@vijaylaxmimajhi2739]

I learned that we must be connected to the Narayanan

[@avoicetocount]

This helps me a lot. Thank you for this story! I struggle so much with my yoga path currently because I feel I cannot make any progress in overcoming my egoic tendencies. It hurts and I feel very upset and disheartened. But this struggle probably makes me stay much closer to that which I seek than I would be if I were content and everything went smoothly. Success creates pride and pride makes us complacent and idle. So it is actually better for me to feel I am not succeeding, because even though it frustrates me tremendously it keeps my attention on the path. Kind of twisted, but then, nothing in yoga ever is as it seems.

[@jamescarter6076]

Beautiful story thank you :)

[@srujanam4346]

Directing every emotion towords lord is a new point and beautiful thing to do

[@swarnimashr3387]

ND WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SOCIETY'S BEHAVIOUR TOWARD OTHERS.. WE ARE ONE.. WE MUST TRY TO ASK FORGIVENESS FOR OTHERS LIKE BHAGWAN NARAYAN JI DID 🙏 AND IMPROVE OUR OWN SOCIETY

[@hemasubramanian6056]

Love your stories Swamiji. Please increase the frequency of stories. Both of my kids are very fond of your stories and they keep asking for it every night. JGD

[@SwamiPurnachaitanya]

I am quite busy with other programs, but I will make sure we keep sharing one every week. :-)

[@SaurabhSingh-gc5vc]

The fact u shared that if we hate someone then we start to imbibe there qualities is so precious to me that I m compelled to think of not hating anyone.🙏🙏🙏🙏Thnku Jaigurudev

[@chaitalipatel8964]

JGD 🙏 what I got from this story is that when we have a guru in our life we should be very very very careful about doing anything wrong. Careful of not letting any bad emotion in ourselves coz when we do something wrong it effects our guru too. He is the one who takes away our sins. Here when God narayana had to except the punishment along with the door keepers so that is something we should be careful of.......and yes that's y also it is said that if we want to give something to the guru then only one thing we have is our smile. Thankyou so much for making us think coz from today onwards I will genuinely take each and every step in my life keeping tthis story in mind.🙏jgd swamiji

[@swarnimashr3387]

1. CURSE IS BLESSING... IT ALLOWS US TO SEE OUR MISTAKE AND IMPROVE IT.. :) 2. EVERYONE IS PURE AT THEIR SUB CONSCIOUS LEVEL❤ WE MUST NOT HATE OR DISLIKE SOMEONE ACCORDING TO THEIR NOT GOOD KARMAS BUT INSTEAD WE SHOULD HAVE A FEELING OF SYMPATHY AND TRY TO HELP THEM TO FREE FROM THESE AND LIVE LIFE... HAR HAR MAHADEV❤ JAI DEVI PARVATI.. JAI SANSAARAM... THNQEWW GURUU G🙏🙏

[@indiradowlut7318]

Grateful and thankful to you swami for sharing such blissful, Noble , powerful,apply knowledge through all the stories you have related to us in your Divine voice ., soothing to the mind,body and soul.spiritual knowledge gives us the power to conquer our inside enemies anger,greed,hatred, jealousy, arrogance, selfishness, ignorance to reach the Lord.If each human being can conquer these enemies definitely we will taste the nectar of heaven and the Lord will be omniscient in our life on the planet Earth.Jai gurudev 💐💐💐🙌🙌🙌

[@rachelharvey9346]

I love your stories and I play them for my Knowledge sessions sometimes. But it's hard to access the stories in order on the KZbin account. If there is any way I can have access to the stories in the order they should be told, this will be wonderful. Especially the ones that go in sets, where a few stories are being told in succession. Jgd and lots of love!

[@beaychua]

I have often wondered what the purpose of hate in my life is.. I used to experience intense aversion towards some members of my family and some have even already passed on but the feeling is still there.. perhaps there is a bigger purpose for it after all.. Jai gurudev and thank you for this illuminating story swamiji

[@shwethakumar502]

Hating anyone because of their wrong action is not a wise idea. Because we won't be aware of their past.

[@poonamakotkhane7300]

How can we control hatred and anger toward someone...who they have really done bad to us...how to be compassionate toward them..how is that possible to bless and not to feel bad about it.

[@SwamiPurnachaitanya]

It needs a broader understanding and wisdom. Not as a concept, but as an experience :-).

[@shyamyadav-dz8bz]

Learned that even the curse of rishi is a blessing . Also if u want to hate, hate the divine so that one imbibes the quality of divine and get liberated.

[@indravadanj.patelpatel5019]

I like lord narayana`s favor for his disciples

[@gowrimanoharithiyagarajan6936]

Jaigurudev Swamiji. You r narrating with so much devotion. Thank u

[@tirupati12345678]

Please tell the stories of all avatars of Lord Narayana

[@vijaysivasankaran621]

You are so great Swamiji... no words or comments. How enlightening. I scold God and Gurudev many times and have felt so guilty later, sometimes I used to think I can never get enlightened or I must have been an Asura who got born in a great family. How grateful that Gurudev and you have come into even my life and you have picked me up without hesitation in putting your hands in the dirt of our minds. Jgd, missing Him so much

[@vijaysivasankaran621]

Not that I am a great devotee or even a great Asura... don't know who I am but only beyond glad that guru came into my life and I can listen to your stories.

[@mrudulalaud4211]

Love the story time Jaigurudev xxx

[@colourfulmomentswithchaitra]

Superb story

[@sergiogonzalezaristizabal3290]

Yes!!!

[@adrianpalomino60]

El sufrmiento as agradable a Narayan ???? Thanks

[@marysoldelhierro2619]

Please. Translation in spanish.

[@Gokulsai18]

Are you from spain?

[@SwamiPurnachaitanya]

Many videos have already been given Spanish subtitles. We have someone working on it. Please be patient, it will be added.

[@Gokulsai18]

@@SwamiPurnachaitanya ok

[@SreejiM]

Jai Gurudev Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏 Every time I hear you narrating such BEAUTIFUL stories, my MIND becomes immensely peaceful 🙂🙂🙂 In the beginning, my MIND was very agitated, but listening to you for few minutes, it became very CALM 🙏🙏🙏 . Trying to run away from suffering was causing even more suffering 😊😊😊. But after listening to this story, i started feeling better about doing more "Tapas" 😇😇😇 . Thank you very very much for your Love and Blessings ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@beaychua]

Sreeji M i have the same experience! Sometimes when i can’t sleep at night i just play one of swamiji’s videos and in a few minutes i doze off... i don’t mean this as an insult, it’s like just passively listening to the story, my Self becomes equanimous and relaxed :) jgd

[@SreejiM]

@@beaychua 👍👍👍 😇😇😇

[@adrianpalominodeodor4183]

Who is God ???

[@solonmanica2074]

Thank you Swamiji, beautiful story and knowledge. I share a thought with you that came about this story. If someone loves or hates a person / thing and is aware that it is Brahma (the person / thing, the feeling / emotion, desire / aversion, thoughts). If the person knows that all of this is Brahma, then is it the same as feeling it for the divine, it becomes divine? This is very subtle to express, but I think you understand or better that you can clarify this thoughts/ questions. I would like you to comment on, what do you think? Gratitude Jai Gurudev

[@SwamiPurnachaitanya]

Once someone realizes and experiences that all of this is nothing but that one Brahman or Consciousness, you will not have any such emotions, as there is no duality, which is the basis for any of these emotions. But if you attribute it to the Brahman, then it is the same as attributing it to the Divine... :-)

[@anastasme]

So following the logic of this story sons of Brahma are so great Rishis but sometimes - just because someone disrespects them - they would casually curse - even more - they think that Narayana's door is being guarded by some simple uneducated souls and even if that was the case Lord Lord Narayana can not take care of this himself and they have to intervene ... And then Lord Narayana comes and says - sorry, they were disrespectful because they didn't know how cool u r implying that if they were not so evolved then it would be just fine to be disrespectful .. wow, what a weird tarka ;) Stories are great but the plot and logic how the morale is revealed is so far from ordinary logic and so (not) representing the values those evolved souls were allegedly living that one can easily start questioning the morale itself.

[@SwamiPurnachaitanya]

I think you missed some of the explanation :-). It is explained how their curses was done out of compassion for the doorkeepers and for their benefit. It also showed how subtle and tricky the feeling of pride and ego is, and can crop up even if one is so close to the Divine. There are beautiful lessons in this... :-)

[@anastasme]

Swami Purnachaitanya I don’t think I missed an explanation - it just does not seem enough :) One normally does something out of compassion when he is in the state of awareness and not when he has lost it for a moment .. according to the story Rishis didn’t wait too long before they - in the state of desire (!) and an anger - decided to give a lesson. First, it indicates that their status of evolvement has been greatly overrated as they cannot remain equanimous and some desires are still left - even for the divine. Means they had not got it ...there is still some duality left. Secondly, they could have been intelligent enough to understand that while being in anger is not the right time to do any action, not mentioning the cursing. Thirdly, they should have been intelligent enough to understand that any such acts are by extension directed at Narayana himself which is minimum disrespectful. It may be well argued that it is Rishis, who need a lesson of humility to be taught. Fourthly, from the story it seems that they needed a help of Narayana to justify their action what Narayana also does by assuring them that those were acts of compassion which in turn indicates that they might not have been that quick in realising their doing. And since you brought up the analogy of ashram and gates ... I don’t think there are many instances in this world when people who want to see the Guru and are not allowed to do that, later on become angry and thus have better chances in getting in - I would say quite an opposite :) . I am not saying the subtle morale of the story is not clear - it is actually quite straightforward .. I am just saying that the story itself, the scenography - can easily be questioned and we can go on and on debating. Best wishes :)

[@sudhadharwadkar7415]

Jai Gurudev Swamiji Liked to listen the story

[@sudhadharwadkar7415]

Jai Gurudev Swamiji

[@indravadanj.patelpatel5019]

Superb story

[@madhurijoshi6561]

Jgd. This story is nothing but Narad bhakti Sutra which guruji told yesterday and day before. I want to mention that I listen your stories take notes of to telll the children

[@sudhadharwadkar7415]

Jai Gurudev Swamiji