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Stories told by Śrīla Prabhupāda
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| Then the next story is “The old lady’s blessing”. Now, I know the background of this story. That Bhakti…. Maharaja and another devotee in Vrindavana they went to see a famous temple and at that temple the priest, the brahmana pujari, he said to them after they took a darshan, that: “You’re such nice devotees that Krishna will surely reward you in your next life that you can take birth in the family of brahmanas like I did”. They returned and Bhakti….. Maharaja informed Srila Prabhupada of this blessing of that brahmana. Then Srila Prabhupada in replay told the story:
| | During the time of the British raja, there was an old lady who lived in the remote village. One day the British district magistrate…they used the district officer, legal officer, who travels around to settle legal problems that might come up in his area. So one day the British district magistrate visited her town. This old lady had been entangled in the quarrel over possession of land, which some of her relatives had been trying to take from her. Friends advised that she see the British magistrate and present the matter to him for settlement. When she did so, this magistrate immediately ruled in her favor and made sure that the land was put in her name. The old lady was very delighted and she blessed the British officer. She said: “I bless you that in your next life you’ll become a policeman”. The reason that she blessed him to become a policeman is that in her village experience the policeman is the most important person. So this was the highest rank she could think of, but the thing is the officer, this magistrate, he’s already so much more important then the village policeman, but the old lady couldn’t understand that. In the same way a devotee, a vaishnava is already so much superior to cast brahmanas. So this blessing is like that, to bless a big district officer that he may become a policeman.
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