Bhagavatam

Once two friends went to listen to a lecture on the Bhagavatam. As they were going there one of them thought, ‘What is there in this Bhagavatam? Let me go instead to a prostitute and enjoy a little happiness.’ He went to the house of the prostitute while his friend went to listen to the lecture. While he was lying with the prostitute the first man began to feel a little guilty about what he had done. He thought to himself, ‘How good it would be to use this human life to listen to stories of the Lord and to meditate on the Lord.’ He began to think wistfully about some of the stories from the Bhagavatam that he had heard before. Because of these feelings, his mind was with the Bhagavatam even though his body was with the prostitute. The other man who had gone to the Bhagavatam was thinking about what his friend might be doing with the prostitute. He thought to himself, ‘My friend must be having a lot more fun than I am’. His body was present at the talk but his mind was not on the Bhagavatam. It was with the prostitute.

THE ONE WHO WAS WITH THE PROSTITUTE GOT THE PUNYA OF LISTENING TO THE BHAGAVATAM. THE OTHER MAN, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS PHYSICALYY PRESENT AT THE TALK, INCURRED THE SIN OF HAVING BEEN WITH THE PROSTITUTE.

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