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Taken from Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto
6
Ajamila was raised according to the Vedic regulations. He was a
perfectly trained brahmana and had a chaste and beautiful
wife.
But one day, while he was out in the fields collecting flowers
for worshipping the Lord, he happened to see a drunken sudra
and a prostitute engaged in sexual embrace. Ajamila became
bewildered and attracted; his mind becoming more and more attached
to the prostitute. In Bhagavad-gita it says that if one
contemplates sense objects, he becomes attached to them. Although
Ajamila was a strict brahmana he became helplessly entangled
by seeing a man and woman engaged in sexual activity. Consequently
he took this prostitute into his home as a maidservant. Inevitably,
he became so entangled that he abandoned his family, wife and children
and went off with the prostitute. Due to his illicit connection
with the prostitute, he lost all his good qualities. He became a
thief, a liar, a drunkard, even a murderer. He completely forgot
about his original training as a brahmana, and his whole
life was ruined.
Engaging in sinful activities, Ajamila fell down from his position,
and he begot many children through the womb of the prostitute. Even
towards the end of his life, around the age of eighty, he was still
begetting children. It is explained that while he was dying, which
is a very fearful time, he began to call out to his pet child, whose
name was Narayana. Narayana is another name of God or Krishna. At
that time, the Yamadutas, the messengers of death, were coming. They
were tying up the subtle body of Ajamila and preparing to take him
to be punished by Yamaraja, the lord of death. At the same time, because
he happened to be speaking the holy name of the Lord Narayana, the
beautiful Visnudutas, the messengers of Krishna, also arrived there.
They checked the activities of the Yamadutas, refusing to allow them
to take Ajamila for punishment.
The Yamadutas were bewildered. "Why are these effulgent and
beautiful personalities checking our action? It's our duty to take
sinful men to Yamaraja for punishment; then they are awarded another
material body for the next life so that they can get the result
of their sinful activity." There was a discussion between the
Yamadutas and the Visnudutas. The conclusion was that although Ajamila
was sinful throughout his life and gave up his religious life, his
wife and children and begot children through a prostitute, he nevertheless
was purified from all these sins because at the last moment he chanted
the holy name of Krishna, Narayana.
Although Ajamila had committed so many sinful deeds, because he
chanted the name of Narayana, he was relieved of all sinful activities.
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