Once A Cobbler Was Rich | #Story from #Ancient #Vedic #Wisdom by Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaja

7 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this short spiritual discourse, the speaker recounts a traditional Vedic story about a man who, after building a fine house, dies and is reborn as a cobbler. In his new life he works in front of the very house he once owned, now inhabited by his former sons who reject and beat him, illustrating the futility and pain of material attachment. The narrative extends the lesson across rebirths, suggesting that attachment can even reduce one to a worm in the same house. The speaker then draws a universal moral: just as we mourn the loss of loved ones, we should redirect our love toward Krishna or God rather than transient material possessions.

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Our spiritual master used to give a story. Once a man had built a nice house, but then he died. So in his next birth, he became a cobbler. Like in India, you see cobblers, they sit down underneath a tree or in front of someone's house and carry their trade. So that cobbler was sitting down doing his business in front of the same house that he had built, but his sons were living in that house now. So when he came inside their house, his sons beat him up with shoes and said, get out of here, you a poor man. This is a house of a rich man, not for people like you. So you may be very attached to the house you built. Then in next life you can take your birth in that house, but not as the proprietor, but as a worm in that house. So all material attachments are painful. You give your so-called love to someone, that someone dies or falls sick, don't you cry? So the conclusion is focus your love on Krishna, focus your love on God.