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Before becoming the disciple of Shri Mahaprabhuji, Krishnadas Meghan accepted a certain yogi as his guru and faithfully followed his teachings. One fine morning while meditating, his guru saw that the Purnaprushotam had taken birth some where on the earth, but he was unsure where and in which form. Coming out of his deep meditation, he mentioned this fact to his disciple Krishnadas Meghan, who was anxious to discover where the Purnaprushotam had appeared and pleaded with his guru to grant him permission to undertake a pilgrimage. After his guru had agreed, Krishnadas Meghan set out and after many years of search, he finally came across Shri Mahaprabhuji. Intuitively knowing Him to be the incarnation spoken of many years previously, he became Shri Mahaprabhuji’s disciple and followed Shri Mahaprabhuji wherever he traveled.
Once while Shri Mahaprabhuji was walking towards Badri Narayana on the Kirani Mountain in order to see Shri Veda Vyasa, a large boulder happened to fall towards Shri Mahaprabhuji and His company. When Krishnadas Meghan stopped the thundering boulder with his bare hands, Shri Mahaprabhuji became very pleased with him and granted him the divine boon of his choice. Krishnadas Meghan requested Shri Mahaprabhuji for three things; first that the philosophy of Shri Mahaprabhuji’s Way would become firm in his heart, secondly, that the sins relating to his own speech would be removed, and lastly that Shri Mahaprabhuji would go to his yogi guru’s hermitage and make him one of His own disciples. Shri Mahaprabhuji granted him the first two boons, but refused the third for Krishnadas Meghan’s yogi guru was not so divinely oriented as to be able to enter into Shri Mahaprabhuji’s Way. The reason why Krishnadas asked those three boons was because tinges of faith and devotion to his former guru still remained in his heart, thus obstructing him from having pure speech as well as the evident experience of Path of Grace. In Shri Mahaprabhuji’s Way, one- pointed devotion is essential for those who want to realize its gist. When Shri Mahaprabhuji made a second trip to Shri Veda Vyasa’s cave hermitage, he told Krishnadas Meghan to stand outside and await His return, for ordinary people could not enter into the divine cave. There, Shri Mahaprabhuji explained to Shri Veda Vyasa one line from the Gopis famous Yugal Gita found in the tenth canto. “O cowherd women, when Shri Krishna applies the flute to His lips, the holes of which are touched by His delicate fingers while he plays, His eyebrows dance while his left cheek inclines towards the root of His left arm.”
Shri Mahaprabhuji took three days to give the full explanation of just that single line. Shri Veda Vyasa having heard Shri Mahaprabhuji’s elaborate purport, confessed to Shri Mahaprabhuji that even he, the author was not able to fully understand the depth of His explanation. The reason for this is that Shri Veda Vyasa is the incarnation of knowledge and therefore unable to comprehend the divine speech of the ‘Purnaprusotam’. Actually, Bhagwan Himself composed the Shrimad Bhagavatam; Veda Vyasa only spoke the Great Work. For this reason Veda Vyasa was not able to actually experience its true nectar. When the author Shri Veda Vyasa was not able to understand its actual gist, then it is not surprising that Krishnadas Meghan would not yet be able to comprehend Shri Mahaprabhuji’s purport. The following poem expresses this very thought.
“To whom Hari (Shri Krishna) does not choose to reveal Himself, those people even after reading and listening to all the Puranas, Smritis, and Vedas still don’t come to know Him. Brahma heard the Shrimad Bhagavatam from the Bhagwan Narayana, and then related the same to Narada. Narada then related the Great Scripture to Shri Veda Vyasa, who was not able to discover It’s true reality for Shrimad Bhagavatam was for him a medicine which removed the anxiety and pain he was feeling. Veda Vyasa then taught the same to Shri Suka Devaji who in turn recited It before King Parikshit. Even though the King heard the tenth canto, which depicts the Braja “lilas” he did not develop Total Love; subsequently he did not perform the Thakurji’s Seva. Shri Vallabh has Himself truly churned the nectarean curds of the Shrimad Bhagavatam to their perfection and removing the veil handed over to His devoted followers, Shri Krishna Himself by revealing to them the varied nectars of Bhagwan Shri Krishna’s services and ornamentations. Says the poet Harijivan, by showering Your grace over divine souls. You let them taste that divine flaour.”
On the third day when Shri Mahaprabhuji came out of the cave and saw Krishnadas Meghan standing in the same place He had left him three days earlier. Shri Mahaprabhuji asked him why he had not left. Krishnadas Meghan replied, “Besides your lotus feet I have no other shelter.” Shri Mahaprabhuji becoming pleased with him again granted him a boon and Krishnadas Meghan proceeded to request for the same three things. Shri Mahaprabhuji granted him two but refused to go to his guru’s hermitage.
Once, at the sacred Ganga Sagar, where the Ganges River meets the ocean, while Krishnadas Meghan was massaging Shri Mahaprabhuji’s feet, the Latter with the intention of showering His grace over Krishnadas Meghan thought to Himself, “It would be nice to have some roasted corn.”
Krishnadas Meghan reading Shri Mahaprabhuji’s mind quietly left Shri Mahaprabhuji and proceeded to the bank of the Ganges River which was full of water due to heavy rain and dark night he could not see any boat which would carry him on the other side to obtained some corn, but to his surprising he saw a young boy approaching him to take him across the bank, on reaching the boy asked Shri Krishnadas if he wanted to return. He went to the field but the farmer was not ready to sell crop but Krishnadas convienced him by paying double the amount, and collected the corn. Then Krishnadas asked the farmer about the roaster who could roast the corn. They both went to roaster and got it roasted by paying double its charges. Upon returning to Shri Mahaprabhuji’s camp he kept roasted corn and then began to massage his beloved Guru’s lotus feet. When Shri Mahaprabhuji awoke and saw that Krishnadas Meghan had brought Him His desired corn, he asked Krishnadas Meghan from where he had obtained it. After Krishnadas Meghan related his entire story, Shri Mahaprabhuji granted him the boon of his choice. Krishnadas Meghan asked for the same three things he had requested before: thereupon Shri Mahaprabhuji remarked, “People do not know what to ask for. What you have already asked for, I have granted. Why not ask to see the Prunaprushotam’s divine form?”
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